SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Hiding Of Black Bill 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 The Hiding Of Black Bill A lank strong red-faced man with a Wellington beak and small fiery eyes tempered by flaxen lashes sat on the station platform at Los Pinos swinging his legs to and fro. At his side sat another man fat melancholy and seedy who seemed to be his friend. They had the appearance of men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat-- seamy on both sides. Ain t seen you in about four years Ham said the seedy man. Which way you been travelling Texas said the red-faced man. It was too cold in Alaska for me. And I found it warm in Texas. I ll tell you about one hot spell I went through there. One morning I steps off the International at a water-tank and lets it go on without me. Twas a ranch country and fuller of spite-houses than New York City. Only out there they build em twenty miles away so you can t smell what they ve got for dinner instead of running em up two inches from their neighbors windows. There wasn t any roads in sight so I footed it cross country. The grass was shoe-top deep and the mesquite timber looked just like a peach orchard. It was so much like a gentleman s private estate that every minute you expected a kennelful of bulldogs to run out and bite you. But I must have walked twenty miles before I came in sight of a ranch-house. It was a little one about as big as an elevated- railroad station. There was a little man in a white shirt and brown overalls and a pink handkerchief around his neck rolling cigarettes under a tree in front of the door. Greetings says I. Any refreshment welcome emoluments or even work for a comparative stranger Oh come in says he in a refined tone. Sit down on that stool please. I didn t hear your horse coming. He isn t near enough yet says I. I walked. I don t want to be a burden but I wonder if you have three or four gallons of water handy. You do look pretty dusty says he but our bathing arrangements-- It s a drink I want says I. Never mind the dust that s on the outside. He .
