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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1919

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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1919 (1920)
by various individual authors, edited by Blanche Colton Williams

The stories in this collection were first published in 1919. This collection was published in 1920.

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O. Henry Memorial Award


PRIZE STORIES

1919

CHOSEN BY THE
SOCIETY OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES

O. HENRY MEMORIAL

AWARD

PRIZE STORIES

1919

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD

PRIZE STORIES

1919


CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES



WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS


Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers.

Copyright, 1919, by The Crowell Publishing Company, Street & Smith Corporation, The Atlantic Monthly Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, New Fiction Publishing Company, The Ridgway Company, The Ainslee Magazine Company, International Magazine Company, The Pictorial Review Company, The Century Company.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction. By Blanche Colton Williams vii
England to America. By Margaret Prescott Montague 3
“For They Know Not What They Do.” By Wilbur Daniel Steele 21
They Grind Exceeding Small. By Ben Ames Williams 42
On Strike. By Albert Payson Terhune 56
The Elephant Remembers. By Edison Marshall 78
Turkey Red. By Frances Gilchrist Wood 105
Five Thousand Dollars Reward. By Melville Davisson Post 120
The Blood of the Dragon. By Thomas Grant Springer 135
“Humoresque.” By Fannie Hurst 148
The Lubbeny Kiss. By Louise Rice 180
The Trial in Tom Belcher’s Store. By Samuel A. Derieux 192
Porcelain Cups. By James Branch Cabell 210
The High Cost of Conscience. By Beatrice Ravenel 228
The Kitchen Gods. By G. F. Alsop 253
April 25th, As Usual. By Edna Ferber 274

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.


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