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From a Portrait by W. H. Wallace, N. Y.
O. HENRY: PLAYING HIS HAND


O. HENRY
PS 2649
(Died June 5, 1910)
P5 298
Five years .... the pencil and the yellow pad jain
1917
Are laid away. . Our changes run so swift
That many newer pinnacles now lift
...MAIN
Above the old four million be made glad.
But still the heart of his well-loved Bagdad
Upon-the-Subway is to him renewed.
He knew, beneath her harmless platitude,
The gentler secrets that the shopgirl bad.
They mark the house on Irving Place FOR SALE;
Disrupt the Union Square that once he knew,
And necklace our Broadway with brighter lights;
But where the pencil that can tell his tale?.
Or hands to write, as his alone could do,
The stories of our Cabarabian Nights?
-CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
(Courtesy of the N. Y. Evening Post)
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
ABOUT five years ago the project of an O. Henry
biography and index was discussed for the first
1 time. The biography was in the hands of Harry
Peyton Steger, a friend of Sydney Porter's during the
latter's lifetime and an indefatigable worker for the
spread of O. Henry's fame after he died. It was Steger
who visited, in 1912, every haunt of O. Henry in the
South and brought to light a quantity of the disjecta
membra of O. Henry's early literary efforts. These were
later collected in the volume called “Rolling Stones.”
g Steger's faith in the ultimate position which O. Henry
would occupy in American literature was of the type
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ran the Porter household as well as the school next door, and a
most remarkable school it was.
Porter's desk-mate in that school, Tom Tate, not long ago wrote
the following account, for his niece to read:
“Miss Porter was a maiden lady and conducted a private school
of West Market Street, in Greensboro, adjoining the Porter resi-
dence. Will was educated there, and this was his whole school
education (with the exception of a term or two at graded school).
There was a great deal more learned in this little one-story, one-
roomed school-house than the three R's. It was the custom of
‘Miss Lina,' as every one called her, during the recess hour to read
aloud to those of her scholars who cared to hear her, and there was
always a little group around her chair listening. She selected good
books, and a great many of her old scholars showed the impress of
these little readings in after life. On Friday night there was a
gathering of the scholars at her home, and those were good times,
too. They ate roasted chestnuts, popped corn or barbecued quail
and rabbits before the big open wood fire in her room. There was
always a book-to-read or a story to be told. Then there was a
game of story-telling, one of the gathering would start the story
and each one of the others was called on in turn to add his quota
until the end. Miss Lina's and Will's were always interesting.
In the summer time there were picnics and fishing expeditions; in
the autumn chinquapin and hickory gatherings; and in the spring
wild-flower hunts, all personally conducted by Miss Lina.
“During these days Will showed decided artistic talent, and it
was predicted that he would follow in the footsteps of his kinsman,
Tom Worth, the cartoonist, but the literary instinct was there, too,
and the quaint dry humor and the keen insight into the peculiar-
ities of human nature.
“The boys of the school were divided in two clubs, the Brickbats
and the Union Jacks. The members of the Union Jacks were
Percy Gray, Will Porter, Jim Doak and Tom Tate, three of whom
died before reaching middle age. Tom Tate is the sole survivor
of this little party of four.
“This club had headquarters in an outbuilding on the grounds
of the old Edgeworth Female College, which some years previously
had been destroyed by fire. In this house they kept their arms
and accoutrements, consisting of wooden battle-axes, shields, and


old cavalry sabres, and on Friday nights it was their custom to sally
forth armed and equipped in search of adventure, like knights of
old from their castle, carefully avoiding the dark nooks where the
moonlight did not fall. Will was the leading spirit in these daring
pursuits, and many was the hair-raising adventure these ten-year-
old heroes encountered, and the shields and battle-axes were oft-
times thrown aside so as not to impede the free action of the nether
limbs when safety lay only in flight. Ghosts were of common oc-
currence in those days, or rather nights, and arms were useless to
cope with the supernatural; it took good sturdy legs.
“After the short school-days Porter found employment as pre-
scription clerk in the drugstore of his uncle, Clarke Porter, and it
was there that his genius as an artist and writer budded forth and
gave the first promise of the work of after years. The old Porter
drugstore was the social club of the town in those days. A game
of chess went on in the back room always, and around the old stove
behind the prescription counter the judge, the colonel, the doctor
and other local celebrities gathered and discussed affairs of state,
the fate of nations and other things and incidentally helped them-
selves to liberal portions of Clarke's Vini Gallaci or smoked his
cigars without money and without price. There were some rare
characters who gathered around that old stove, some queer per-
sonalities, and Porter caught them and transferred them to paper
by both pen and pencil in an illustrated comedy satire that was his
first public literary and artistic effort.
“When this was read and shown around the stove the picture
was so true to life and caught the peculiarities of the dramatis
personæ so aptly it was some time before the young playwright was
on speaking terms with some of his old friends. ‘Alias Jimmy
Valentine’s' hit is history now, but I doubt if at any time there was
a more genuine tribute to Porter's ability than from the audience
around the old stove, behind the prescription counter nearly thirty
years ago.
“In those days Sunday was a day of rest, and Porter with a friend
would spend the long afternoons out on some sunny hillside shel-
tered from the wind by the thick brown broom sedge, lying on their
backs gazing up into the blue sky dreaming, planning, talking or
turning to their books, reading. He was an ardent lover of God's
great out-of-doors, a dreamer, a thinker and a constant reader. He


(they say presently up here) and bring out the guitar. She would
complain that the E string was broken, but no one would believe
her: and pretty soon all of us would be singing the ‘Swanee River'
and 'In the Evening by the Moonlight' and — oh, gol darn it,
what's the use of wishing.”
Part II – Texan Days
Will Porter found a new kind of life in Texas — a life that filled Y
his mind with that rich variety of types and adventures which later
was translated into his stories. Here he got — from observation,
and not from experience, as has often been said, for he was never a
cowboy — the originals of his Western characters and Western.
scenes. He looked on at the more picturesque life about him
rather than shared in it; though through his warm sympathy and
his vivid imagination he entered into its spirit as completely as any
one who had fully lived its varied parts.
It was while he was living on the Hall ranch, to which he had
gone in search of health, that he wrote — and at once destroyed -
his first stories of Western life. And it was there, too, that he drew
the now famous series of illustrations for a book that never was
printed. The author of that book, “Uncle Joe” Dixon, was a pros-
pector in the bonanza mining days in Colorado. Now he is a
newspaper editor in Florida; and he has lately told, for the survivors
of Will Porter's friends of that period, the story of the origin of
these drawings. His narrative illustrates anew the remarkable
impression that Will Porter's quaint and whimsical personality
even in his boyhood, made upon those who knew him.
Other friends, who knew him more intimately than “Uncle Joe"
Dixon, saw other sides of Will Porter's character. With them his
boyish love of fun and of good-natured and sometimes daredevil
mischief came again to the surface, as well as those refinements of
feeling and manner that were his heritage as one of the “decent
white folks” of Greensboro. And with them, too, came out the
ironical fate that pursued him most of his life to be a dreamer and
yet to be harnessed to tasks that brought his head from the clouds
to the commonplaces of the store and the street. Perhaps it was
this very bending of a sky-seeking imagination to the dusty comedy
of every day that brought him later to see life as he pictured it in
“The Four Million,” with its mingling of Caliph Haroun-al-Ras-
chid's romance with the adventures of shop-girls and restaurant


keepers. At any rate, even the Texas of the drug-clerk days and
of the bank-clerk period appealed to his sense of the humorous and
romantic and grotesque. Here is what one intimate of those days
recalls of his character and exploits:
“Will Porter, shortly after coming to Texas became a member
of the Hill City Quartette, of Austin, composed of C. E. Hillyer,
R. H. Edmundson, Howard Long and himself. Porter was the
littlest man in the crowd, and, of course, basso profundo. He was
about five feet six inches tall, weighed about one hundred and thirty
pounds, had coal black hair, gray eyes, and a long, carefully twisted
moustache; looked as though he might be a combination between the
French and the Spanish, and I think he once told me that the blood
of the Huguenot flowed in his veins. He was one of the most ac-
complished gentlemen I ever knew. His voice was soft and mu-
sical, with just enough rattle in it to rid it of all touch of effemin-
acy. He had a keen sense of humor, and there were two dis-
tinct methods of address which was characteristic with him — his
business address and his friendly address. As a business man, his
face was calm, almost expressionless; his demeanor was steady, even
calculated. He always worked for a high class of employers, was
never wanting for a position, and was prompt, accurate, talented
and very efficient; but the minute he was out of business — that
was all gone. He always approached a friend with a merry twinkle
in his eye and an expression which said: “Come on, boys, we are
going to have a lot of fun,' and we usually did.
“If W. S. P. at this time had any ambitions as a writer, he never
mentioned it to me. I do not recall that he was fond of reading.
One day I quoted some lines to him from a poem by John Alex-
ander Smith. He made inquiry about the author, borrowed the
book and committed to memory a great many passages from it,
but I do not recall ever having known him to read any other book.
I asked him one day why he never read fiction. His reply was:
‘That it was all tame compared with the romance in his own life,'
- which was really true.
"In the great railroad strike at Fort Worth, Texas, the Gover-
nor called out the State Militia, and the company to which we be-
longed was sent, but as we were permitted a choice in the matter,
Porter and I chose not to go. In a little while a girl he was in love
with went to Waco on a visit. Porter moped around disconsolate
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for a few days, and suddenly said to me: 'I believe I'll take a visit
at the Government's expense.' With him to think was to act. A
telegram was sent to Fort Worth: 'Capt. Blank, Fort Worth, Texas.
Squad of volunteers Company Blank, under my command tender
you their services if needed. Reply.'. 'Come next train,'· Cap-
tain Blank commanded. Upon reaching the depot no orders for
transportation of squad had been received. Porter actually held
up the train until he could telegraph and get transportation for his
little squad, because the girl had been notified that he would be in
Waco on a certain train. She afterward said that when the train
pulled into Waco he was sitting on the engine pilot with a gun across
his lap and a distant glance at her was all that he got, but he had
had his adventure and was fully repaid.
“This adventure, is only one of thousands of such incidents that
commonly occurred in his life. He lived in an atmosphere of ad-
venture that was the product of his own imagination. He was an
inveterate story-teller, seemingly purely from the pleasure of it,
but he never told a vulgar joke, and as much as he loved humor
he would not sacrifice decency for its sake and his stories about
women were always refined.
papa CHe told a great many stories in the first person. We were often
puzzled to know whether they were real or imaginary, and when
we made inquiry his stock reply was: 'Never question the validity
of a joke.'"
But the lure of the pen was getting too strong for Will Porter
to resist. Life as a teller in the First National Bank of Austin was
too routine not to be relieved by some outlet for his love of fun and
for his creative literary instinct. An opportunity opened to buy a
printing outfit, and he seized it and used it for a year to issue the
Rolling Stone, a weekly paper that suggested even then his later
method as a humorist and as a photographic portrayer of odd types
of humanity. Dr. D. Daniels — “Dixie” he was to Will Porter —
now a dentist in Galveston, Texas, was his partner in this enter-
prise, and his story of that year of fun gives also a picture of Will
Porter's habit of studying human nature at first hand - a habit
that later carried him into many quaint byways of New York and
into many even more quaint and revealing byways of the human
heart. Here is Dr. Daniels's story:
"It was in the spring of 1894 that I floated into Austin," said Dan-
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sleep. I suppose we were voluminous with suggestions as to where
he might care to live, because we felt we had some knowledge of
the subject of board and lodging, and because he was the kind of
man you'd give your best hat to on short acquaintance, if he needed
a hat, - but also he was the kind of man who would get a hat for
himself. Within about twenty-four hours he called at the office
again to say that he had taken a large room in a French table
d'hôte hotel in Twenty-fourth Street, between Broadway and Sixth
Avenue. Moreover, he brought us a story. In those days he
was very prolific. He wrote not only stories, but occasional skits
and light verse. In a single number of Ainslee's, as I remember,
we had three short stories of his, one of which was signed "O. Henry"
and the other two with pseudonyms. Of the latter, “While the
Auto Waits” was picked out by several newspapers outside New
York as an unusually clever short story. But as O. Henry natur-
ally he appeared most frequently, as frequently as monthly publi-
cation allows, for to my best recollection, of the many stories we
saw of his there were only three about which we said to him, we
would rather have another instead.
Still he lived in West Twenty-fourth Street, although the place
had no particular fascination for him. We used to see him every
other day or so, at luncheon, at dinner, or in the evening. Va-
rious magazine editors began to look up O. Henry, which was a
job somewhat akin to tracing a lost person. While his work was
coming under general notice rapidly, he made no effort to push
himself into general acquaintance; and all who knew him when
he was actually somewhat of a celebrity should be able to say that
it was about as easy to induce him to “go anywhere" to meet some-
body as it is to have a child take medicine. He was persuaded
once to be the guest of a member of the Periodical Publishers' As-
sociation on a sail up the Hudson; but when the boat made a stop
at Poughkeepsie, O. Henry slipped ashore and took the first train
back to New York. Yet he was not unsociable, but a man that
liked a few friends round him and who dreaded and avoided a so-
called "party" as he did a crowd in the subway.
It was at his Twenty-fourth Street room that Robert H. Davis,
then of the staff of the New York World, ran him to cover, as it
were, and concluded a contract with him to furnish one story a
week for a year at a fixed salary. It was a gigantic task to face,
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
O. HENRY, 1867-1910
Critical estimates, personal sketches and portraits compiled
by Katharine Hinton Wootten and Tommie Dora Barker
of the staff of Carnegie Library, Atlanta, Georgia *
“American Story Teller"--Craftsman, 18:576, August, 1910.
“A Typically American Short Story Writer”-Current Literature, 49:
88-9, July, 1910.
Cooper, Frederic Taber—“O. Henry” (in “Some American Story Tellers,”
p. 225-244, Holt, 1911. Gives short bibliography).
Irwin, Will—"O. Henry, Man and Writer.” Cosmopolitan, 49:447-9,
September, 1910. Followed by “The Dream," 0. Henry's last story, and
“The Crucible," 0. Henry's last poem.
Lindsay, Nicholas Vachell—“A Knight in Disguise,” “He could not for-
get that he was a Sidney.” Current Literature, 53:111, July, 1912 (This
appeared also in American Magazine, 74:216, June, 1912).
Page, Arthur W.-"Little Pictures of O. Henry." Bookman, 37:381, 498,
508, &07, June-August, 1913 (The best sketch that has appeared. Illus-
trated with pictures of O. Henry and members of his family, as well as scenes
of his early life. Show also his first artistic effort, and his drawing of “Uncle
Remus").
Personal O. Henry-Bookman, 29:345.
Richardson, Caroline Francis-"O. Henry and New Orleans.” Book-
man, 39:281-7, May, 1914 (Profusely illustrated with views from the scenes
of the New Orleans stories).
Rollins, Hyder E.-"O. Henry.”. A critical sketch. Sewanee Review,
22:214, April, 1914 (Criticism of this article in N. Y. Times Book Review,
May 3, 1914, p. 220).
Steger, Harry Peyton—"O. Henry.” Biographical sketch, with por-
trait. Bookman, 37:2, March, 1913.
Life of O. Henry. Bookman, 34:115-8, October, 1911.
por “ O.Henry'_Who He Is and How He Works.” World's Work, 18:11724-6,
June, 1909.
“O. Henry, New Facts About the Great Author,” and a hitherto unpub-
lished story by O. Henry, “The Fog in Santone." Cosmopolitan, 53:655,
October, 1912.
* The compilers have in preparation an exhaustive bibliography, and will
welcome criticism or suggestions.



O. HENRY AT THIRTY


O. HENRY INDEX
ABDICATION, THE HIGHER
See: Heart of the West
ABILITY, FROM EACH ACCORDING
TO HIS
See: Voice of the City, The
ABOUT TOWN, MAN
See: Four Million, The
ACCOLADE, THE GUARDIAN OF THE
See: Roads of Destiny
ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, FROM
EACH
See: Voice of the City, The
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE, AN
See: Four Million, The
ADMIRAL, THE
See: Cabbages and Kings
ADVENTURES OF SHAMROCK JOLNES,
THE
See: Sixes and Sevens
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
See: Four Million, The
A LA CARTE, CUPID
See: Heart of the West
A LA CARTE, SPRINGTIME
See: Four Million, The
ANSWERS, QUERIES AND
See: Rolling Stones
ANTHEM, THE COP AND THE
See: Four Million, The
APHASIA, A RAMBLE IN
See: Strictly Business
APOLOGY, AN
See: Rolling Stones
APPLE, THE SPHINX
See: Heart of the West
ARABIA, A NIGHT IN NEW
See: Strictly Business
ARABIAN NIGHT, A MADISON
SQUARE
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
ARCADIA, TRANSIENTS IN
See: Voice of the City, The
ARCHER, MAMMON AND THE
See: Four Million, The
ARISTOCRACY VERSUS HASH
See: Rolling Stones
ART AND THE BRONCO
See: Roads of Destiny
ART, CONSCIENCE IN
See: Gentle Grafter, The
ARTS, MASTERS OF
See: Cabbages and Kings
ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS, THE
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
AT ARMS WITH MORPHEUS
See: Sixes and Sevens
ATAVISM OF JOHN TOM LITTLE
BEAR, THE
See: Rolling Stones
ATWOOD, JOHNNY
See: Note under Cabbages and Kings
AUTO WAITS, WHILE THE
See: Voice of the City, The
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0. HENRY INDEX
31
GENTLE GRAFTER, THE (ILLUS-
TRATED)-SHORT STORIES
Contents:
The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
Mammon and the Archer
Springtime à la Carte
The Green Door
From the Cabby's Seat
An Unfinished Story
The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
Sisters of the Golden Circle
The Romance of a Busy Broker
After Twenty Years
Lost on Dress Parade
By Courier
The Furnished Room
The Brief Début of Tildy
The Octopus Marooned
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
Modern Rural Sports
The Chair of Philanthromathematics
The Hand that Riles the World
The Exact Science of Matrimony
A Midsummer Masquerade
Shearing the Wolf
Innocents of Broadway
Conscience in Art
The Man Higher Up
A Tempered Wind
Hostages to Momus
The Ethics of Pig
FOUR ROSES, THE-VERSE
See: Roses, Ruses and Romance in
"Voice of the City"
FOURTH IN SALVADOR, THE
See: Roads of Destiny
“Fox-IN-THE-MORNING”
See: Cabbages and Kings
FRIEND, TELEMACHUS,
See: Heart of the West
FRIENDLY CALL, THE
See: Rolling Stones
FRIENDS IN SAN ROSARIO
See: Roads of Destiny
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS
ABILITY
See: Voice of the City, The
FROM THE CABBY'S SEAT
See: Four Million, The
“FRUIT, LITTLE SPECK IN GARN-
ERED”
See: Voice of the City, The
FURNISHED ROOM, THE
See: Four Million, The
FURY, SOUND AND—DIALOGUE
See: Rolling Stones
GENTLEMEN, Two THANKS-
GIVING DAY-
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
GEORGIA'S RULING
See: Whirligigs
GHOST OF A CHANCE, THE
See: Sixes and Sevens
GIFT OF THE MAGI, THE
See: Four Million, The
“GIRL”
See: Whirligigs
GIRL AND THE GRAFT, THE
See: Strictly Business
GIRL AND THE HABIT, THE
See: Strictly Business
GLADYS HUSTLED, How, OR
FICKLE FORTUNE
See: Rolling Stones
GOLD THAT GLITTERED, THE
See: Strictly Business
GOLDEN CIRCLE, SISTERS OF THE
See: Four Million, The
GOODWIN, FRANK
See: Note under Cabbages and Kings
GRAFT, THE GIRL AND THE
See: Strictly Business
“GARNERED FRUIT, LITTLE
SPECK IN"
See: Voice of the City, The


O. HENRY INDEX
41
PROFILE, THE ENCHANTED
See: Roads of Destiny
PROOF OF THE PUDDING
See: Strictly Business
PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER
See: Strictly Business
PUDDING, PROOF OF THE
See: Strictly Business
PULSE, LET ME FEEL YOUR
See: Sixes and Sevens
PUMA, THE PRINCESS AND THE
See: Heart of the West
PURPLE DRESS, THE
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
QUANTITY, THE UNKNOWN
See: Strictly Business
QUERIES AND ANSWERS
See: Rolling Stones
REFORMATION, A RETRIEVED
Dramatized as “Alias Jimmy Valen-
tine"
See: Roads of Destiny
REFORMATION OF CALLIOPE, THE
See: Heart of the West
REMNANTS OF THE CODE, THE
See: Cabbages and Kings
RENAISSANCE AT CHARLEROI, THE
See: Roads of Destiny
RENEGADES, Two
See: Roads of Destiny
REPORT, A MUNICIPAL
See: Strictly Business
REPRODUCTIONS OF MANUSCRIPT
AND PAGES FROM THE PLUNK-
VILLE PATRIOT AS PRINTED BY
O. HENRY IN THE ROLLING
STONE
See: Rolling Stones
RESURGENT, THE DAY
See: Strictly Business
RETRIEVED REFORMATION, A
See: Roads of Destiny
RHEINSCHLOSS, THE HALBERDIER
OF THE LITTLE
See: Roads of Destiny
RILES THE WORLD, THE HAND
THAT
See: Gentle Grafter, The
ROAD, THE LONESOME
Sec: Roads of Destiny
ROADS OF DESTINY-SHORT STOR-
IES
Contents:
Roads of Destiny
The Guardian of the Accolade
The Discounters of Money
The Enchanted Profile
“Next to Reading Matter”
Art and the Bronco
Phoebe
R
RAMBLE N APHASIA, A
See: Strictly Business
RANCHES, MADAME BO-PEEP OF
THE
See: Whirligigs
RANSOM OF MACK, THE
See: Heart of the West
RATHSKELLER AND THE ROSE, THE
See: Voice of the City, The
“READING MATTER, NEXT TO"
Sce: Roads of Destiny
RECALLS, Two
Sec: Cabbages and Kings
RED CHIEF, THE RANSOM OF
See: Whirligigs


O. HENRY INDEX
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
The Passing of Black Eagle
A Retrieved Reformation
Cherchez la Femme
Friends in San Rosario
The Fourth in Salvador
The Emancipation of Billy
The Enchanted Kiss
A Departmental Case
The Renaissance at Charleroi
On Behalf of the Management
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stock-
The Marquis and Miss Sally
A Fog in Santone
The Friendly Call
A Dinner at
Sound and Fury-Dialogue
Tictocq (from "The Rolling Stone")
Tracked to Doom, or the Mystery
of the Rue de Peychaud (from
“The Rolling Stone")
A Snapshot at the President (Edi-
torial in “The Rolling Stone”;
An Unfinished Christmas Story
The Unprofitable Servant-Unfin-
ished
Aristocracy versus Hash (from "The
Rolling Stone")
The Prisoner of Zembla (from "The
Rolling Stone”)
A Strange Story (from “The Rolling
Stone"
Fickle Fortune or How Gladys
ing
Hustle fortune.com“The Roche
Stone")
An Apology (from "The Rolling
Stone")
Lord Oakhurst's Curse (sent in a
letter to Dr. Beall, Greensboro, N.
C. in 1883)
Bexar Script No. 2692 (from “The
Rolling Stone”)
Queries and Answers (from “The
Rolling Stone')
The Halberdier of the Little Rhein-
schloss
Two Renegades
The Lonesome Road
ROADS WE TAKE, THE
See: Whirligigs
ROBE OF PEACE, THE
See: Strictly Business
ROLLING STONE, THE-O.
HENRY'S NEWSPAPER PUB-
LISHED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
Extracts:
Tictocq
Tracked to Doom, or The Mystery
of the Rue de Peychaud
A Snapshot at the President
Aristocracy versus Hash
The Prisoner of Zembla
Fickle Fortune or How Gladys
Hustled
An Apology
Bexar Script No. 2692
Queries and Answers
All of the above will be found in the vol-
ume entitled Rolling Stones
ROLLING STONES (illustrated)
Stories and Sketches and Poems col-
lected from various magazines, from
“The Rolling Stone," 0. Henry's
Texas newspaper, and from hitherto
unpublished manuscripts
Poems:
The Pewee
Nothing to Say
The Murderer
Some Postscripts
Two Portraits
A Contribution
The Old Farm
Vanity
The Lullaby Boy
Chanson de Bohème
Hard to Forget
Drop a Tear in this Slot
Tamales
Letters
To Mr. Gilman Hall of Everybody's
Magazine
To Mrs. Hall of North Carolina, an
Contents:
To My letter Reall, an o
Portrait of O. Henry
0. Henry-Poem by James Whit-
comb Riley
Introduction-by H. P. Steger
Records of Births and Deaths in
the Porter Family Bible
The Dream-Unfinished. The last
work of 0. Henry
A Ruler of Men
The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear
Helping the Other Fellow
The Marionettes
To Dr. W. P. Beall, an old friend in
North Carolina--a humorous letter
about a play he has written
Two more letters to Dr. Beall
Four Letters to Dave-Mr. David
Harrell
Parable Letter
TwoLetters to His Daughter Margaret
To Mr. Cosgrove of Everybody's
Magazine
To Mr. Gilman Hall-about his
approaching marriage to Miss Sara


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SAN ROSARIO, FRIENDS IN
See: Roads of Destiny
SANTONE, A FOG IN
See: Rolling Stones
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS
See: Options
SCIENCE OF MATRIMONY, THE
EXACT
See: Gentle Grafter, The
SCOTCH HIGHBALL, THE RUBAIYAT
OF A
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
SCRIPT No 2692, BEXAR
See: Rolling Stones
SEASON, COMPLIMENTS OF THE
See: Strictly Business
SEATS OF THE HAUGHTY
See: Heart of the West
SERGE AND STRAW, SOCIOLOGY IN
See: Whirligigs
SERGEANT, THE SONG AND THE
See: Whirligigs
SERVANT, THE UNPROFITABLE
See: Rolling Stones
SERVES, HE ALSO
See: Options
SERVICE OF LOVE, A
See: Four Million, The
SHIPS
See: Cabbages and Kings
SHOCKS OF Doom, THE
See: Voice of the City, The
SHOES
Sec: Cabbages and Kings
SISTERS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
See: Four Million, The
SIXES AND SEVENS—SHORT STO-
RIES
Contents:
The Last of the Troubadours
The Sleuths
Witches' Loaves
The Pride of the Cities
Holding Up a Train
Ulysses and the Dogman
The Champion of the Weather
Makes the Whole World Kin
At Arms with Morpheus
The Ghost of a Chance
Jimmie Hayes and Muriel
The Door of Unrest
The Duplicity of Hargraves
Let Me Feel Your Pulse
October and June
The Church with an Overshot
Wheel
New York by Campfire Light
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
The Lady Higher Up
The Greater Coney
Law and Order
Transformation of Martin Burney
The Caliph and the Cad
The Diamond of Kali
The Day We Celebrate
SHAMROCK AND THE PALM, THE
See: Cabbages and Kings
SHAMROCK JOLNES
A character occurring in The Sleuths
and also in The Adventures of
Shamrock Jolnes
See: Sixes and Sevens
SKYLIGHT Room, THE
See: Four Million, The
SLEUTHS, THE
See: Sixes and Sevens
SMITH
See: Cabbages and Kings
SNAPSHOT AT THE PRESIDENT, A
See: Rolling Stones
SOCIAL TRIANGLE, THE
See: Trimmed Lamp, The
SOCIOLOGY IN SERGE AND STRAW
See: Whirligigs
SHEARING THE WOLF
See: Gentle Grafter, The