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(MUSIC) Our story today is called Rappaccinis Daughter. It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We will tell the story in two parts. Here is Kay Gallant with the first part of our story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni

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(MUSIC) Our story is called The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: A friend of mine in the East asked me to visit old Simon Wheeler, to ask about my frie

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(MUSIC) Today's story is called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It is about something strange that happed long ago in a valley called Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Washington Irving. The story is told by Doug Johnson. (MUSIC) Narrator: The valley kn

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Today we continue the story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. Last week we told how African slaves on a Spanish ship rebelled in 1799. They killed most of the Spanish sailors, only the Captain Benito Cereno and a few others were left

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The old Indian was sitting in the snow. It was Koskoosh, former chief of his tribe. Now all he could do was sit and listen to the others. His eyes were old, he could not see. But his ears were wide open to every sound. Aha, that was the sound of his

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Captain Benito Cereno hurried aboard his ship. It was ready to sail. A bright sun in a soft breeze promised good weather ahead. The ships anchor was raised and the San Dominick, old but still seaworthy, moved slowly out of the harbor of Valparaiso o

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Today we complete the story Benito Cereno written by Herman Melville. As we told you in earlier parts of our story, rebel slaves seized the ship San Dominick off the coast of Chile. They killed many of its officers and crew. The Captain Benito Ceren

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Gatewood Caper. It was written by Dashiell Hammett, Here is Harry Monroe with the story. Millionaire Harvey Gatewood had a desk as big as a bed in the middle of his offi

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Our story today is called The Cask of Amontillado. It was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Larry West with the story. Fortunato and I both were members of very old and important Italian families. We used to play together when we were children. Fo

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Now the weekly VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Surviving Adverse Seasons. It was written by Barry Targan. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Abel Halleck was 59 years old when his wife Estelle died. He

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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Rainbabies, it was written by Laura Krauss Melmed. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. An old woman and her husband lived in a small house in a greenfield. They had pl

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Tale For A Frosty Morning, it was written by Merrill Pollack. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Ben was awakened by a gunshot. The shot noise came through the thick stone

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One day, our neighbor Keno Carter rode his horse over to our house. He had another horse with him. He rode to me and said: You have helped me a lot during the year. You've been a good boy. Now, here is the horse I promised. It is yours. At first, I

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Our story today is called Charles, it was written by Shirley Jackson. Here is K Glant with the story. The day my son Lorry started going to school, he began wearing blue jeans with the belt. I watched him leave with the older girl who live next door

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There are a hundred places in New York like Gabriel's. Up front is a small bar, in back there are a few booths and a half of dozen tables, the husband is the cook, and the wife takes care of the bar. It has a name, which is the first name of the hus

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Now the special English program American Stories. Our story today is Hard Rock Maple. It is about two people living in New England. They seemed like the hard rock maple trees, often found in that area. Nothing can make them move. Today's story was w

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The western American city of San Francisco, California suffered a huge earthquake on April eighteenth, nineteen-oh-six. More than three thousand people are known to have died. The true number of dead will never be known. Two hundred fifty thousand p

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Our story this week is called The God of His Fathers. It was written by Jack London in the year nineteen-oh-one. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. (MUSIC). Storyteller: Silently the wolves circled the herd of caribou deer. Gray bellies close to th

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Our story today is called Judge. It was written by Walter D Edmonds. We will hear Part One of the story today, and Part Two next week. Here is Harry Menro with our story. When Charlie Hasku died, he left a wife and nine children. They lived on a sma

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Our story this week is called The Pipe. It was written by Catherine W, here is Shep O'Neal with the story. Mr. Dows store was widely known throughout the neighborhood. It sold many different things. Both old and young came here to shop for special i