(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 today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Mister Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not

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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) Our story today is, The Devil and Tom Walker. It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Before we begin our story, let us go back three hundred years to the late sixteen hundreds. In those

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Carter Druse was born in Virginia. He loved his parents, his home and the South. But he loved his country too. And in the autumn of 1861, when the United States was divided by a terrible Civil War, Carter Druse, a Southerner, decided to join the Uni

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G sat in the bedroom and looked at the paper that covered the walls. He felt strange. He and his wife had slept in this room all of their married life. Yet he could not remember what the walls looked like. He had been blind. Now he could see again.

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John Lyman stood on the steps of the summer house, watching his wife climbing into the car and drive off along the lake road. She was going to the village to get some boxes for his manuscripts and books. He looked unhappy, he had done little work on

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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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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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Now the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called the Line of Least Resistance(最省力的方法). It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Milli

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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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Mrs. Henry Miller had lived alone for several years. Her husband was dead. But he had left her a comfortable amount of money. He also had left her a nice apartment in New York City near the East River. There were three other apartments in the large

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Now the special English program American Stories. Today's story is called the White Heron. It was written by Sarah Orne Jewett. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. The forest was full of shadows as a little girl hurried through it one summer evening

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called, The Return of a Private. It was written by Hamlin Garland. Here is Harry Monroe with our story. (MUSIC) Narrator: The soldiers cheered as the train crossed the border into the state of Wisconsin. It had been a long

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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

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A couple often went shopping together. They both liked teacups. One day they saw a beautiful teacup in a store. As they picked it up, it suddenly spoke. I havent always been a teacup. Once I was red earth. My master rolled me over and over and I shou

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