THE CACTUS by O.HENRY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	The Oh, Welcome to another episode from 100 thousand one classic short stories and tales.
0:35.0	This one titled The Cactus was written by Oh Henry, otherwise known as William
0:41.0	Sidney Porter. As you become familiar with some of these great
0:45.1	classic authors through our stories remember oh Henry for his wit his wordplay
0:49.5	his warm characterizations that really bring people to life and his surprise endings.
0:55.0	This story, though very short, has it all and will probably have you searching the bookstore for more from this author.
1:01.0	Well, Henry's life was a story in itself.
1:04.4	Born in 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina,
1:08.0	and moving to Texas soon after,
1:10.0	he spent his days as a young man hurting sheep on a ranch and reading whatever he could get his hands on.
1:16.0	He was also a natural singer and musician and played the guitar and mandolin.
1:22.0	He also started a weekly newsletter called The Rolling Stone magazine, which
1:26.6	contained his drawings and writing. But he made a bad choice in life when he started
1:31.9	embezzling money from a bank he was working for as a bookkeeper.
1:35.5	And he was arrested, but fled to the Honduras to avoid extradition, where he wrote,
1:40.7	cabbages and kings, in which he was the first to coin the expression,
1:45.2	Banana Republic, a phrase used to describe a small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America.
1:52.0	The law eventually did catch up with him and he spent five years
1:55.2	in an Ohio prison where he was released early having realized the error of his
2:00.0	ways and headed for New York where he became a prolific writer. He wrote hundreds of stories,
2:06.1	the most famous being the gift of the Magi, about a young couple short on money that desperately wanted to buy each other Christmas gifts and resorted to
2:14.8	unusual ways to do it. And now the Cactus by O'Henry.
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