11/20/2022 0 Comments A strange story o henry![]() "What business is it of yours?" I said angrily. "I want to go to eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street," I said, and I started to climb into the carriage. He opened the carriage door and said softly, "Step right in, sir. ![]() Uncle Caesar stood near a horse and carriage. It was yellow and as big as a fifty cent coin. But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors. It was very long and when it was new it had been gray. It must have been a military officers coat. Uncle Caesar was wearing the strangest coat I had ever seen. He was a big, old black man with fuzzy gray hair. As soon as I stepped outside I met Uncle Caesar. I left the hotel at nine oclock the next morning to find Miss Adair. The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine. The magazine had received some stories and poems from a writer in Nashville, named Azalea Adair. I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now. "A nice quiet place," I said to myself as I got ready for bed. It was ten oclock but the town was silent. I went up to my room and looked out the window. He showed me a handful of silver coins that he pulled from his coat pocket.īy this time, I had decided that I wanted no more of him. While we drank, he talked continually about himself, his family, his wife and her family. He introduced himself as Wentworth Caswell - Major Wentworth Caswell - from "a fine southern family." Caswell pulled me into the hotels barroom and yelled for a waiter. ![]() He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes. Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone. I was tired so I went straight to my hotel.Ī big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. STORYTELLE: It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain. Henry and first published in nineteen-oh-four. ![]() Our story today is called "A Municipal Report." It was written by O. ANNOUNCER: And now, the weekly VOA Special English program of American stories. ![]()
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