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O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously 근면성실하게 stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He had ..

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O. Henry The Cop and the Anthem On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand. A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to the regular den..

O. Henry After Twenty Years AFTER TWENTY YEARS by O. Henry  The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled the streets.  Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and ar..

O. Henry 'The Gift of the Magi' "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, espe..

한 대학의 동물생명과학대학 건물에서 원인을 알 수 없는 폐렴이 집단으로 발병해 방역당국이 긴장하고 있다. 시민들은 중동호흡기증후군(MERS·메르스) 사태의 악몽이 되살아나지 않을까 걱정이다. 　“메르스 사태로 인한 국민들의 상처가 치유되기도 전에 또다시 원인 불명의 폐렴이 ..

미국에서 오래도록 공부하고 돌아온 지인이 중요한 글을 하나 썼다면서 어떤지 한번 읽어봐 달라고 했다. 읽어본 뒤 그에게 말했다. “잘 썼는데 ‘들들들들’ 굴러가네요.” “네? 그게 무슨 말이에요?” 　얘기인즉슨 글 속에 복수를 나타내는 ‘들’이 너무 많아 읽기 불편하다는 것..

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