And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome to another episode from one

one classic short stories and tales.

Those great reviews you've been sending us tell us we have lots of O'Henry fans.

So here's a treat. This one is called the Skylight Room.

The story of a young woman named Miss Leeson who has rented a cheap room in a New York

City boarding house trying to make her way on her own.

The setting, New York City, around 1895.

She's experiencing hard times and she's fallen sick.

Her outcome to be determined in typical O'Henry fashion.

The story was published in the 4 million, a collection of short stories by O'Henry that was first

published in 1906. And now the Skylight Room by O'Henry.

First Mrs Parker would show you the double parlors.

You would not dare to interrupt her description of their advantages and of the merits of the

gentleman who had occupied them for eight years. Then you would manage to stammer forth to confession that you were neither a doctor nor a dentist.

Mrs. Parker's manner of receiving the admission was such that you could never afterward entertain the same feeling

toward your parents who had neglected to train you up in one of the professions that fitted

Mrs. Parker's parlors.

Next you ascended one flight of stairs and looked at the second floor back at $8.

Convinced by her second floor manner that it was worth the $12 that Mr. Tousenberry always paid for it

until he left to take charge of his brother's orange plantation in Florida near Palm Beach,

where Mrs. McIntyre always spent the winters that had the double front

room with private bath.

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