SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Thimble, Thimble 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 Thimble Thimble These are the directions for finding the I office of Carteret Carteret Mill Supplies and Leather Belting You follow the Broadway trail down until you pass the Crosstown Line the Bread Line and the Dead Line and come to the Big Canons of the Moneygrubber Tribe. Then you turn to the left to the right dodge a pushcart and the tongue of a two-ton four-horse dray and hop skip and jump to a granite ledge on the side of a twenty-one-story synthetic mountain of stone and iron. In the twelfth story is the office of Carteret Carteret. The factory where they make the mill supplies and leather belting is in Brooklyn. Those commodities--to say nothing of Brooklyn--not being of interest to you let us hold the incidents within the confines of a one-act one-scene play thereby lessening the toil of the reader and the expenditure of the publisher. So if you have the courage to face four pages of type and Carteret Carteret s office boy Percival you shall sit on a varnished chair in the inner office and peep at the little comedy of the Old Nigger Man the Hunting-Case Watch and the Open-Faced Question--mostly borrowed from the late Mr. Frank Stockton as you will conclude. First biography but pared to the quick must intervene. I am for the inverted sugar-coated quinine pill--the bitter on the outside. The Carterets were or was Columbia College professors please rule an old Virginia family. Long time ago the gentlemen of the family had worn lace ruffles and carried tinless foils and owned plantations and had slaves to burn. But the war had greatly reduced their holdings. Of course you can perceive at once that this flavor has been shoplifted from Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith in spite of the et after Carter. Well anyhow In digging up the Carteret history I shall not take you farther back than the year 1620. The two original American Carterets came over in that year but by different means of transportation. One brother named John came in the Mayflower and .
