WHILE THE AUTO WAITS and A COMEDY IN RUBBER O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Both stories from 'The Voice of the City'- O.Henry's impressions of a young and boisterous New York City around 1919.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, The Down in front of cases, old brown wood. |
| 0:39.0 | Down in front of cases, old brown wooden stoop. |
| 0:48.2 | On a summer's evening, |
| 0:52.2 | we formed a merry group. Boys and girls together, we would sing and watch while the Jenny play the organ on the sidewalks of New York |
| 1:15.0 | east side west side |
| 1:20.0 | all around the town. The Tots sang Ring a rosy. London bridges falling down. Boys and girls together. |
| 1:37.0 | Me and Mamie Rourke. |
| 1:42.0 | Tripped the light fan. E Welcome back everyone to |
| 1:54.1 | the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 1:57.5 | John Hagenorn. I have some oh Henry short stories for you today from his |
| 2:02.1 | collection called The Voice of the City published in 1919. |
| 2:06.0 | Our first story, while the auto waits. |
| 2:10.0 | Promptly at the beginning of twilight came again to that quiet |
| 2:14.0 | corner of that quiet small park, the girl in gray. |
| 2:18.0 | She sat upon a bench and read a book, |
| 2:20.0 | for there was yet to come a half hour in which print could be accomplished. |
| 2:24.0 | To repeat, her dress was gray and plain enough to mask its imprecency of style and fit. |
| 2:30.0 | A large mesh veil imprisoned her turban hat and a face that shone through it with a calm and unconscious beauty. |
| 2:37.0 | She had come there at the same hour on the day previous and on the day before that, and there was one who knew it. |
| 2:44.0 | The young man who knew it hovered near, relying upon burnt sacrifices to the great joss luck. |
| 2:51.0 | His piety was rewarded for, in turning a page, her book slipped from her fingers and |
| 2:56.4 | bounded from the bench a full yard away. |
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