THE COP AND THE ANTHEM by O.HENRY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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O.Henry wrote this classic tale of fall in New York City in 1905 from the viewpoint of a homeless man named Soapy, who, after feeling the first cold winds of winter coming, realizes that its time to get arrested so he can spend the winter in jail at Blackwell's Island. But getting arrested isn't going to prove easy this time around..... Catch ALL our author interviews in one place here at 1001 History's Best Storytellers! Android devices: https://podbay.fm/p/1001-historys-best-storytellers (cut and paste into your url) Apple devices: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host, John Haggadorn. And today, another
0:36.8	great short story from O'Henry called The Cop in the Anthem. Like many of O'Henry's stories, this
0:42.4	one takes us to New York City around 1900,
0:45.0	and this one has a great plot twist as well.
0:48.0	You'll be meeting a homeless man called Soapy, who is occupying a park bench in the late fall, realizing that colder weather is coming
0:55.2	and he needs a place he can count on that offers a bed and three squares a day.
1:00.0	For that he knows he can always rely on Blackwell's Island, the city's jail, so he makes up his mind to get himself arrested.
1:07.0	But things don't go quite as he planned.
1:10.0	And now our story, The Cop in the Anthem, by O Henry.
1:15.0	On his bench in Madison Square, Soapy moved uneasily.
1:20.0	When wild geese honk high of knights,
1:22.0	and when women without seal skinskinned coats grow kind to their husbands.
1:26.0	And when soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.
1:32.4	A dead leaf fell in soapy's lap. That was Winter is near at hand.
1:32.6	A dead leaf fell in soapy's lap.
1:34.8	That was Jack Prost Card.
1:36.8	Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and he gives fair warning of his
1:40.9	annual call.
1:43.0	At the corners of four streets, he hands his pasteboard to the north wind, footman of the
1:47.3	mansion of all outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.
1:52.4	Soapy's mind became cognizant of the fact that the time had come for him to resolve himself
1:56.6	into a singular committee of ways and means to provide against the coming rigor, and therefore
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