THE CALL OF THE TAME and THE CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In THE CALL OF THE TAME a Rough Rider is in New York City for Teddy Roosevelt's inaugaration when he meets an old friend who had once worked with him on a ranch but is now living comfortably in the city. In the end, a few cocktails help him see the city in a new light.
In THE CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER, a group of men gathered around a campfire ask their guide how he can tell a New Yorker apart from other men.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Hello 2001 fans, welcome back to 1001 classic Short Stories and Tales. It's time for a double-headed |
| 0:35.9 | from one of my favorite classic authors, O Henry, the two stories, The Call of the Tame, |
| 0:42.4 | and the Champion of the weather. Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:45.0 | And now the call of the tame by O'Henry. |
| 0:49.0 | When the inauguration was accomplished, the proceedings were made smooth by the presence of the rough riders, |
| 0:56.5 | it is well known that a herd of those competent and loyal ex-wariers paid a visit to the big city. The newspaper reporters dug out of their |
| 1:06.4 | trunks the old broad-brimmed hats and leather belts that they wear to North Beach |
| 1:10.7 | fish fries and mixed with visitors. |
| 1:14.2 | No damage was done beyond the employment of the wonderful plural, tender feet |
| 1:18.8 | in each of the scribes stories. |
| 1:21.6 | The Westerners mildly contemplated the skyscrapers as high as the third story, |
| 1:26.4 | yawned at Broadway, hunched down in the big chairs and hotel corridors, and altogether looked |
| 1:31.8 | as bored and dejected as a member of ye |
| 1:34.2 | ancient and honorable artillery separated during a sham battle from his valet. |
| 1:39.1 | Out of this sight-seen delegations of Good King Teddy's gentleman of the Royal Bearhounds dropped one Greenbrier nigh of Pinfeather Arizona. |
| 1:50.0 | The daily cyclone of 6th Avenue's rush hour swept him away from the company of his partner's true. |
| 1:56.0 | The dust from a thousand rustling skirts filled his eyes. |
| 2:00.0 | The mighty roar of trains rushing across the sky deafened him. |
| 2:04.0 | The lightning flash of twice ten hundred beaming eyes confused his vision. |
| 2:10.0 | The storm was so sudden and tremendous that Greenbrier's first impulse was to lie down and grab a root. |
| 2:18.0 | And then he remembered that the disturbance was human and not elemental and he backed out of it with a grin into a doorway. |
| 2:26.8 | The reporters had written that but for the wide-brimmed hats the west was not visible |
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