Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million

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O Henry. Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million

I. STRICTLY BUSINESS

II. THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED

III. BABES IN THE JUNGLE

IV. THE DAY RESURGENT

V. THE FIFTH WHEEL

VI. THE POET AND THE PEASANT

VII. THE ROBE OF PEACE

VIII. THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT

IX. THE CALL OF THE TAME

X. THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY

XI. THE THING'S THE PLAY

XII. A RAMBLE IN APHASIA

XIII. A MUNICIPAL REPORT

XIV. PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER

XV. A BIRD OF BAGDAD

XVI. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

XVII. A NIGHT IN NEW ARABIA

XVIII. THE GIRL AND THE HABIT

XIX. PROOF OF THE PUDDING

XX. PAST ONE AT ROONEY'S

XXI. THE VENTURERS

XXII. THE DUEL

XXIII "WHAT YOU WANT"

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. Therefore let us have the moral first and be done with it. All is not gold that glitters, but it is a wise child that keeps the stopper in his bottle of testing acid.

Where Broadway skirts the corner of the square presided over by George the Veracious is the Little Rialto. Here stand the actors of that quarter, and this is their shibboleth: "'Nit,' says I to Frohman, 'you can't touch me for a kopeck less than two-fifty per,' and out I walks."

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Mrs. O'Brien rested her blond pompadour against the shoulder of the Colombian patriot.

"Oh, señor," she sighed, happily, "ain't you terrible!"

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