O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

mbed on them, in the hardware department of Wilbram, Prescot & Co., and still they would not toughen; still they would hurt; still to sustain his spirit after three o'clock h

e butcher, with a side glance at the clock, "A crown roast

pressly for that purpose had she come out

r his aching feet than for Butcher Myers. Where was the charity in asking a hurried man at five minu

ephone calls are another. Scarcely had Downey's opening come to speak for

eat Shop. Blandly he smiled into the transmitter upon

counter the following social int

ening; that food for the dog may with propriety be brought home from a hotel, but not from the Mortimer Trevelyans; that there was utterly nothing in the icebox for poor Mudge's supper; that Mudge was a chow dog purchased by a friend of Mr. Wilbram's in Hongkong at so much a pound, just as Mr. Myers purchased live fowls

at all; he would send up the order as soon as his boy came

slip and stuck

owney," he

m one tremendous look an