SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Little Talk About Mobs Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY A Little Talk About Mobs I see remarked the tall gentleman in the frock coat and black slouch hat that another street car motorman in your city has narrowly excaped lynching at the hands of an infuriated mob by lighting a cigar and walking a couple of blocks down the street. Do you think they would have lynched him asked the New Yorker in the next seat of the ferry station who was also waiting for the boat. Not until after the election said the tall man cutting a corner off his plug of tobacco. I ve been in your city long enough to know something about your mobs. The motorman s mob is about the least dangerous of them all except the National Guard and the Dressmakers Convention. You see when little Willie Goldstein is sent by his mother for pigs knuckles with a nickel tightly grasped in his chubby fist he always crosses the street car track safely twenty feet ahead of the car and then suddenly turns back to ask his inother whether it was pale ale or a spool of 80 white cotton that she wanted. The motorman yells and throws himself on the brakes like a football player. There is a horrible grinding and then a ripping sound and a piercing shriek and Willie is sitting with part of his trousers torn away by the fender screaming for his lost nickel. In ten seconds the car is surrounded by 600 infuriated citizens crying Lynch the motorman Lynch the motorman at the top of their voices. Some of them run to the nearest cigar store to get a rope but they find the last one has just been cut up and labelled. Hundreds of the excited mob press close to the cowering motorman whose hand is observed to tremble perceptibly as he transfers a stick of pepsin gum from his pocket to his mouth. When the bloodthirsty mob of maddened citizens has closed in on the motorman some bringing camp stools and sitting quite close to him and all shouting Lynch him Policeman Fogarty forces his way through them to the side of their prospective victim. Hello Mike says the motorman
