SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Newspaper Story 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 Newspaper Story AT 8 A. M. it lay on Giuseppi s news-stand still damp from the presses. Giuseppi with the cunning of his ilk philandered on the opposite comer leaving his patrons to help themselves no doubt on a theory related to the hypothesis of the watched pot. This particular newspaper was according to its custom and design an educator a guide a monitor a champion and a household counsellor and vade mecum. From its many excellencies might be selected three editorials. One was in simple and chaste but illuminat- ing language directed to parents and teachers depreca- ting corporal punishment for children. Another was an accusive and significant warning addressed to a notorious labour leader who was on the point of instigating his clients to a troublesome strike. The third was an eloquent demand that the police force be sustained and aided in everything that tended to increase its efficiency as public guardians and servants. Besides these more important chidings and requisitions upon the store of good citizenship was a wise prescription or form of procedure laid out by the editor of the heart- to-heart column in the specific case of a young man who had complained of the obduracy of his lady love teaching him how he might win her. Again there was on the beauty page a complete answer to a young lady inquirer who desired admonition toward the securing of bright eyes rosy cheeks and a beautiful countenance. One other item requiring special cognizance was a brief personal running thus DEAR JACK -- Forgive me. You were right. Meet me comer Madison and -th at this morning. We leave at noon. PENITENT. At 8 o clock a young man with a haggard look and the feverish gleam of unrest in his eye dropped a penny and picked up the top paper as he passed Giuseppi s stand. A sleepless night had left him a late riser. There was an office to be reached by nine and a shave and a hasty cup of coffee to be crowded into the interval. He visited his barber .
