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SHALL I EXPECT YOU next Wednesday for our game as usual? asked Mr Mellilow. Of course, of course, replied Mr Creech. Very glad theres no ill feeling, Mellilow. Next Wednesday as usual. Unless his heavy face darkened for a moment, as though at some di
RAIN It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to h
"One Thousand Dollars," by O. Henry 欧亨利短篇小说《一千美元》 Our story today is called One Thousand Dollars. It was written by O. Henry. Here is Steve Ember with the story. One thousand dollars, said the lawyer Tolman, in a severe
KIND sir, be so good as to notice a poor, hungry man. I have not tasted food for three days. I have not a five-kopeck piece for a nights lodging. I swear by God! For five years I was a village schoolmaster and lost my post through the intrigues of th
[Part 6] VIII Pashenka had already long ceased to be Pashenka and had become old, withered, wrinkled Praskovya Mikhaylovna, mother-in-law of that failure, the drunken official Mavrikyev. She was living in the country town where he had had his last ap
13 Bunces Giant Storehouse My dear Foxy! cried Badger. What in the world has happened to your tail? Dont talk about it, please, said Mr Fox. Its a painful subject. They were digging the new tunnel. They dug on in silence. Badger was a great digger an
HYDROCEPHALUS Merriam-Websters dictionary defines hydrocephalus as an abnormal increase in the amount of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranial cavity that is accompanied by expansion of the cerebral ventricles, enlargement of the skull and especiall
1 The Three Farmers Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Bo
7 Well Never Let Him Go At six oclock in the evening, Bean switched off the motor of his tractor and climbed down from the drivers seat. Bunce did the same. Both men had had enough. They were tired and stiff from driving the tractors all day. They we
The Emperor 'And there's another thing,' said Mrs Murgatroyd. Beside her in the taxi her husband concealed a small sigh. With Mrs Murgatroyd there was always another thing. No matter how well things were going, Edna Murgatroyd went through life to th
It was on the Friday evening that Higgins sidled up to him in the main hall as he waited for his wife to come out of the ladies. 'I've got to talk to you ... alone,' Higgins hissed from the corner of his mouth with enough secrecy to attract attention
'Maybe we could have it for dinner,' said Higgins. Kilian shook his head regretfully. 'Bonito are for bait fish,' he said. 'The locals eat them in soups, but they don't taste much good.' They made a second run through the shoal and there was a second
n the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream. It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp, ripping-metal explosion, the violent heave that had tossed him furiously
We're all right for a while here, he wheezed. They don't come here much any more. If they do, we'll hear them and we can hide. Who? demanded Burckhardt. The little man said, Martians! His voice cracked on the word and the life seemed to go out of him
Burckhardt loosened his tie and ordered another Frosty-Flip from the waiter. If only they wouldn't keep the Crystal Cafe so hot! The new paint jobsearing reds and blinding yellowswas bad enough, but someone seemed to have the delusion that this was J
Outside on the quay the sun beat fiercely. A stream of motors, lorries and buses, private cars and hirelings, sped up and down the crowded thoroughfare, and every chauffeur blew his horn; rickshaws threaded their nimble path amid the throng, and the
In these circumstances we need not go into the matter further, he said slowly, at last breaking the silence. If the possessor of this letter sees fit to place it in the hands of the prosecution you will be prepared. His words suggested that he had no
It was a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite season when partridges are still in security or cold storage, and there is nothing to hunt--unless one is bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, in which case one may l
Dad wouldnt buy me a Bart Simpson doll. Mum actually said yes, but Dad said I was spoiled. Why should we, eh? he said to Mum. Why should we buy him one? All it takes is one little squeak from him and you jump to attention. Dad said I had no respect f
HE HAD PICKED up his prisoner at Fort Huachuca shortly after midnight and now, in a silent early morning mist, they approached Contention. The two riders moved slowly, one behind the other. Entering Stockman Street, Paul Scallen glanced back at the o