THE WATER HOLE BY MAXWELL STRUTHER
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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A man reuniting with his friends in New York City and recently back from another one of his world adventures shares a story of an occurrence in Arizona which nearly cost him his life.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.0 | Sometimes it takes a lot of looking to find a good Short Story, |
| 0:36.0 | and I've really found one here with the Water Hole by Maxwell Struthers-Burt. |
| 0:42.0 | This story takes place in the Old West and it's a story that first appeared |
| 0:46.5 | in Scribner's magazine in 1915. It's a story of great bravery and even greater |
| 0:52.0 | regret played out against the harsh backdrop of the unforgiving desert |
| 0:56.4 | where a man may die of thirst and in a cruel irony a thirsty man may die of slaking that thirst too quickly as we'll soon find out in the |
| 1:06.6 | waterhole by Maxwell Struthers Bert. |
| 1:12.0 | Some men are like the twang of a bow string. Hardy was like that. Short, lithe, sunbird, vivid, |
| 1:19.6 | into the lives of Jerrick, Hill, and myself, old classmates of his. He came and went in the fashion of |
| 1:26.4 | one of those queer winds that on a sultry day in summer blow unexpectedly up a |
| 1:30.9 | city street out of nowhere. |
| 1:33.6 | His comings excited us. |
| 1:35.2 | His goings left us refreshed and a little vaguely discontented. |
| 1:39.7 | So many people are gray. |
| 1:41.6 | Hardy gave one a shock of color as do the deserts and the |
| 1:45.2 | mountains he inhabited. It was not particularly what he said. He didn't |
| 1:49.9 | talk much. It was his appearance, his direct, a trifle fierce, gestures, the sense of |
| 1:57.0 | mysterious lands that pervaded him. One never knew when he was coming to |
| 2:01.4 | New York and one never knew how long he was going to stay. |
| 2:05.0 | He just appeared. |
| 2:06.3 | Was very busy with mining companies for a while. |
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