The weekly Special English program - American Stories. Our story today is called To Build a Fire. It was written by Jack London. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. The man walked down the trail on a cold gray day. Pure white snow and ice covered th

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Our story today is called The Gatewood Caper. It was written by Dashielll Hammett. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. Millionaire Harvey Gatewood had a desk as big as a bed in the middle of his office. He looked almost as big as his desk. Gatewood

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Our story today is called Golden Wedding. It was written by Ruth Suckow. Here is Shirley Griffith to tell you the story. Mrs. Willie turn to her husband and said, Pa, you are to change your clothes. Why are you in such a hurry? Well, she answered, yo

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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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Our story today is called A Girl for Walter. It was written by Theodore Jason. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. We never knew what Walter was, but we called him an idiot. We called him that without knowing if he really was as foolish and as stupid

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is The Listener. It was written by John Berry. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Once there was a Czechoslovakian violin player who lived in Sweden. His name was Rudolf. S

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Our story today is adapted from a novel for young people called Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly. Crazy Lady is a Newbery Honor Book, one of the highest awards for children's literature in the United States. The story is told by 14-year-old Vernon Deb

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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 seem like the hard rock maple trees often found in that area, nothing can make them move. Today's story was writ

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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Mute Singer. It was written by Stanislav Szukalski. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage t

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Long ago, the people who settled in undeveloped areas of America first told tall tales. After a hard day's work, people gathered to tell each other stories. Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero. An African-American man named John Henry w

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Cask of Amontillado. It was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Fortunato and I both were members of very old and important Italian families. We used to play toget

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Announcer: Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. The occurrence, or event, in our story takes place during the war of the eighteen-sixtie

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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Paul's Case. It was written by Willa Cather. Paul's Case will be told in 2 parts. Here is Kay Gallant with part one of the story. Paul hated school. He did not do his ho

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The snow kept coming down, quietly, ghostlike, covering the land deeper and deeper. It seemed as if it would go on forever. It was the first snowfall of the year. Billy looked through the kitchen window. He felt like diving into the snow and burying

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Today we complete the story Paul's Case. It was written by Willa Cather. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. Paul was a student with a lot of problems. He hated school. He didn't like living with his family on Cordelia Street in the industrial city

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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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Our story today is called the Wide Net. It was written by Eudora Welty. Here is Larry West with the story. William Wallace Jameson's wife Hazel was going to have a baby, but this was October, and the baby wouldn't be borne until April. Hayzel acted

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I arrived in America one sunny morning. But I did not feel I was here yet. Flying on an airplane from Lagos, Nigeria to New York City, to Los Angeles, California did not carry my mind with me right away. I had to catch up with my body. The United St

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Once there was a Czechoslovakian violin player who lived in Sweden. His name was Rudolf. Some of his friends said he could not play the violin very well. He was too restless and travelled around too much. Rudolf did travel. That is true. He travelle

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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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