THE THIRD INGREDIENT by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this story, a 30 year old woman named Hettie, down on her luck and making a stew with only meat, meets a young lady in her apartment house who is also down on her luck, but has a potato. The two bond and the younger one pours out her troubles while the onion less stew is cooking......
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 0:35.2 | John Haggadorn today a great short story from O Henry called The Third |
| 0:40.6 | ingredient hope you enjoy it. The so-called |
| 0:45.0 | called Valembrosa Apartment House is not an apartment house. |
| 0:50.0 | It is composed of two old-fashioned brownstone front residences welded into one. |
| 0:56.0 | The parlor floor of one side is gay with the wraps and headgear of a mouriste. |
| 1:02.0 | The other is lugubrious with the sophisticated promises and |
| 1:06.2 | grisly display of a painless dentist. You may have a room there for $2 a week, or you may have one for $20. |
| 1:15.0 | Among the Valembrose's rumors are stenographers, musicians, brokers, shopgirls, space rate writers, art students, wiretapers, and other people who lean far over the banister rail when the doorbell rings. |
| 1:31.4 | This treatise shall have to do with but two of the valembrojans, though many no disrespect to the others. |
| 1:37.0 | At six o'clock one afternoon, Hety Pepper came back to her third floor rear $3.50 room in the Valembrosa with |
| 1:46.6 | her nose and chin more sharply pointed than usual. |
| 1:51.2 | To be discharged from the department store where you have been working for four years, |
| 1:55.0 | and with only 15 cents in your purse does have a tendency to make your features appear more finely chiseled. |
| 2:02.0 | And now for Hedy's thumbnail biography while she climbs the two flights |
| 2:06.1 | of stairs. She walked into the biggest store one morning four years before with 75 other girls applying for a job behind the |
| 2:15.3 | waste department counter. The phalanx of wage earners formed a bewildering scene of |
| 2:20.9 | beauty carrying a total mass of blonde hair sufficient to have justified the horseback gallops of a hundred Lady |
| 2:27.0 | Gadiva's. |
| 2:29.0 | The capable, cool-eyed impersonal, young, bald-headed man whose task it was to engage six of the contestants, |
| 2:36.8 | was aware of a feeling of suffocation as if he were drowning a sea of Frangipani, while |
| 2:41.5 | white clouds, hand-em embroidered, floated about him. |
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