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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Whirligigs, by O. Henry
Title: Whirligigs
Author: O. Henry
Release Date: January, 1999 [eBook #1595]
Most recently updated: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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WHIRLIGIGS
by
O. Henry
CONTENTS
| I. | THE WORLD AND THE DOOR |
| II. | THE THEORY AND THE HOUND |
| III. | THE HYPOTHESES OF FAILURE |
| IV. | CALLOWAY'S CODE |
| V. | A MATTER OF MEAN ELEVATION |
| VI. | "GIRL" |
| VII. | SOCIOLOGY IN SERGE AND STRAW |
| VIII. | THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF |
| IX. | THE MARRY MONTH OF MAY |
| X. | A TECHNICAL ERROR |
| XI. | SUITE HOMES AND THEIR ROMANCE |
| XII. | THE WHIRLIGIG OF LIFE |
| XIII. | A SACRIFICE HIT |
| XIV. | THE ROADS WE TAKE |
| XV. | A BLACKJACK BARGAINER |
| XVI. | THE SONG AND THE SERGEANT |
| XVII. | ONE DOLLAR'S WORTH |
| XVIII. | A NEWSPAPER STORY |
| XIX. | TOMMY'S BURGLAR |
| XX. | A CHAPARRAL CHRISTMAS GIFT |
| XXI. | A LITTLE LOCAL COLOUR |
| XXII. | GEORGIA'S RULING |
| XXIII. | BLIND MAN'S HOLIDAY |
| XXIV. | MADAME BO-PEEP, OF THE RANCHES |
A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamer El Carrero swore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz—a person who could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them.
As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it by affirming that I read in a purely fictional story the other day the line: "'Be it so,' said the policeman." Nothing so strange has yet cropped out in Truth.
When H. Ferguson Hedges, millionaire promoter, investor and man-about- New-York, turned his thoughts upon matters convivial, and word of it went "down the line," bouncers took a precautionary turn at the Indian clubs, waiters put ironstone china on his favourite tables, cab drivers crowded close to the curbstone in front of all-night cafés, and careful cashiers in his regular haunts charged up a few bottles to his account by way of preface and introduction.
As a money power a one-millionaire is of small account in a city where the man who cuts your slice of beef behind the free-lunch