THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (UPDATED) O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 26 December 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry narrated by master storyteller Jon Hagadorn for 1001 Classic short Stories & Tales podcast in 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.4 | This is your host, John Hecadorn. |
| 0:35.4 | Today, The Gift of the Magi by O Henry. |
| 0:39.4 | This story was originally published on December 10, 1905 in the New York Sunday world as |
| 0:43.9 | gifts of the Magi. It was subsequently published as the gift of the Magi in |
| 0:48.6 | O'Henry's 1906 short story collection, The 4 Million. And now our story. |
| 0:54.4 | One dollar and eighty seven. That was all. |
| 1:04.0 | And 60 cents of it was in pennies. |
| 1:06.0 | Penny saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher |
| 1:12.0 | until one's cheeks burned with the silent |
| 1:14.0 | imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Dela |
| 1:19.0 | accounted it, $1.87 And the next day would be Christmas. |
| 1:25.0 | There was clearly nothing left to do but flopped down on the shabby little couch and cry. |
| 1:30.0 | So Della did it, which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles with snipples predominating. |
| 1:40.0 | While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, |
| 1:45.0 | take a look at the home, a furnished flat at $8 a week. |
| 1:49.4 | It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. |
| 1:56.3 | In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would go, and an electric button |
| 2:00.9 | from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. |
| 2:04.2 | Also appertaining thereon to was a card bearing the name Mr. James Dillingham Young. |
| 2:11.3 | The Dillingham had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. |
| 2:18.0 | Now when the income was shrunk to $20, the letters of Dillingham looked blurred as though they were thinking seriously of |
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