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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

THE NICE PEOPLE by H.C. BUNNER

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A married couple straying at a quiet resort witness the ostracizing of a younger couple whose stories don't quite match up.

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1:36.9

This is your host, John Haggardorn.

1:40.1

Today, a story from Henry Kyler Bunner, H.C. Bunner, a great writer with a great sense of humor, giving us a story called The Nice People.

1:51.5

This story is from Bunner's short sixes, and it also appeared in his periodical puck in the July 30th, 1890 issue.

1:59.5

And now our story.

2:14.3

They certainly are nice people. I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that was anything but nice English.

2:24.8

"'And I'll bet that their three children are better brought up than most of—'

2:28.3

"'Two children,' corrected my wife.

2:31.7

"'Three,' he told me.

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