O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1924
O. HENRY MEMORIAL
AWARD
PRIZE STORIES
of 1924
O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD
PRIZE STORIES
of 1924
CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES
with an introduction by
BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS
Author of “A Handbook on Story Writing,”
“Our Short Story Writers,” Etc.
Associate Professor of English, Hunter College
of the City of New York
Instructor in Story Writing, Columbia
University (Extension Teaching and
Summer Session)
GARDEN CITYNEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1925
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright, 1924, by The McCall Company, The Century Co., The American Mercury, Inc., Consolidated Magazines Corporation, P. F. Collier & Son Company, Harper & Brothers, The Atlantic Monthly Company, The Forum Publishing Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The Frank A. Munsey Company, The Pictorial Review Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, and Charles Scribner's Sons.
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AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
CONTENTS
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