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there. We have two O'Henry stories for you today. It seems O'Henry had

springtime on the mind. The first is Springtime All the Cart, and the second is the Merry

month of May, with Mary spelled M-A-R-R-Y. And now our first story, Springtime Al-A-Cart. Enjoy.

The most brilliant and crowning feat of Sarah's battle with the world was the deal she made

with Schulenberg's home restaurant. Will her beau Walter make good on his promise?

And now our story. Spring was taking its time to arrive in the city, and with no letter from her fiancée in weeks, Sarah's quite wilted.

In a faint golden globe from her dandelionine dream, she fingered the typewriter keys absently for a little while, with her mind and heart in the meadow lane with her young

farmer it was a day in march never never begin a story this way when you write one no opening could

possibly be worse it is unimaginative flat dry and like that it consists of mere wind. But in this

instance, it is allowable. For the following paragraph, which should have inaugurated the narrative,

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