THE LOVE LETTERS OF SMITH H.C. BUNNER
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your host John |
| 0:34.3 | Haggadorn I have an interesting short story for you today from an author called |
| 0:38.8 | H.C. Bunner this one's called The Love Letters of Smith. Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:49.8 | When the little seamstress had climbed to her room in the story over the top story of the great brick tenement house in which she lived. |
| 0:57.0 | She was quite tired out. |
| 0:59.0 | If you do not understand what a story over a top story is, you must remember that there are no limits to |
| 1:05.3 | human greed, and hardly any to the height of tenement houses. |
| 1:10.5 | When the man who owned that seven-story tenement found that he could rent another floor, |
| 1:15.0 | he found no difficulty persuading the guardians of our building laws to let him clap another story on the roof, |
| 1:21.0 | like a cabin on the deck of a ship, And in the southeasterly of the four apartments |
| 1:25.8 | on this floor, the little seamstress lived. You could just see the top of her window from the |
| 1:31.5 | street. The huge cornice that had capped the original front, and that served as her |
| 1:36.5 | window sill now, quite hid all the lower part of the story on top of the top story. |
| 1:43.0 | The little seamstress was scarcely 30 years old, |
| 1:46.0 | but she was such an old-fashioned little body |
| 1:49.0 | in so many of her looks and ways |
| 1:50.0 | that I had almost spelled her sumptstress after the fashion of her grandmothers. |
| 1:55.8 | She had been a comely body too, |
| 1:58.0 | and would have been still if she had not been thin and pale |
| 2:01.9 | and anxious-eyed. She was tired out tonight because she had been |
| 2:05.8 | working hard all day for a lady who lived far up in the new wards beyond Harlem |
| 2:10.6 | River and after the long journey home, |
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