The ransom of Red Chief and other O. Henry stories for boys

by O. Henry

"I found Bill backed up against the side of it, breathing hard, and the boy threatening to smash him with a rock half as big as a cocoanut."

The Ransom of Red Chief

and Other

O. Henry Stories

FOR BOYS

AS CHOSEN BY

FRANKLIN K. MATHIEWS

ILLUSTRATED BY

GORDON GRANT

GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1921

Copyright, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1918, by

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

PRINTED AT GARDEN CITY, N. Y., U. S, A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mr. Gordon Grant's illustrations in this book are taken from those which appear in the handsome fourteen-volume Memorial Edition of O. Henry's works, and grateful acknowledgment is therefore made to Mr. Gabriel Wells, through whose courtesy they are used.

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Introduction	xi
The Ransom of Red Chief	3
Jimmie Hayes and Muriel	24
A Technical Error	35
The Reformation of Calliope	48
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet	65
One Dollar’s Worth	78
A Chaparral Christmas Gift	92
The Roads We Take	102
New York By Camp Fire Light	111
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes	119
The Sleuths	131
The Cop and the Anthem	143
The Foreign Policy of Co. 99	156
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog	168
Lost on Dress Parade	178
The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein	191
The Girl and the Habit	201
After Twenty Years	212
“What You Want”	219
The Clarion Call	230
A Retrieved Reformation	244
A Double-Dyed Deceiver	259
The Theory and the Hound	281
A Blackjack Bargainer	301

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I found Bill backed up against the side of it, breathing hard, and the boy threatening to smash him with a rock half as big as a cocoanut Frontispiece

(See page 10)

Facing page

I made a few passes with my hands. "Now," says I, "the inflammation's gone" 72

The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm. "You're not Jimmie Wells," he snapped 216

He knew the country well—its most tortuous and obscure trails through the great wilderness 264

THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF

AND OTHER O. HENRY STORIES