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    A Strange Story: O. Henry

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    1) A Strange Story tells the tale of John Smothers who disappears one night when he goes to town to get medicine for his daughter who was sick with colic. 2) Many years later, his daughter's daughter also has a daughter who gets sick with colic on the anniversary of John Smothers' disappearance. 3) When the husband goes to get medicine, an old man enters and gives the sick girl medicine, curing her instantly. It is revealed to be John Smothers, who explains he was delayed all those years waiting for a streetcar.

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    1) A Strange Story tells the tale of John Smothers who disappears one night when he goes to town to get medicine for his daughter who was sick with colic. 2) Many years later, his daughter's daughter also has a daughter who gets sick with colic on the anniversary of John Smothers' disappearance. 3) When the husband goes to get medicine, an old man enters and gives the sick girl medicine, curing her instantly. It is revealed to be John Smothers, who explains he was delayed all those years waiting for a streetcar.

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    1) A Strange Story tells the tale of John Smothers who disappears one night when he goes to town to get medicine for his daughter who was sick with colic. 2) Many years later, his daughter's daughter also has a daughter who gets sick with colic on the anniversary of John Smothers' disappearance. 3) When the husband goes to get medicine, an old man enters and gives the sick girl medicine, curing her instantly. It is revealed to be John Smothers, who explains he was delayed all those years waiting for a streetcar.

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    A Strange Story: O. Henry

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    1) A Strange Story tells the tale of John Smothers who disappears one night when he goes to town to get medicine for his daughter who was sick with colic. 2) Many years later, his daughter's daughter also has a daughter who gets sick with colic on the anniversary of John Smothers' disappearance. 3) When the husband goes to get medicine, an old man enters and gives the sick girl medicine, curing her instantly. It is revealed to be John Smothers, who explains he was delayed all those years waiting for a streetcar.

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    A Strange Story

    by O. Henry

    Talk about being patient...A Strange Story is an odd account of a delayed errand for cough syrup,
    requiring patients...coincidentally, two, in fact.
    Dr/ Seth
    Arnold's cough killer advertisement

    In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name
    of Smothers. The family consisted of John Smothers, his wife, himself, their
    little daughter, five years of age, and her parents, making six people toward
    the population of the city when counted for a special write-up, but only three
    by actual count.

    One night after supper the little girl was seized with a severe colic, and John
    Smothers hurried down town to get some medicine.

    He never came back.

    The little girl recovered and in time grew up to womanhood.

    The mother grieved very much over her husband's disappearance, and it was
    nearly three months before she married again, and moved to San Antonio.

    The little girl also married in time, and after a few years had rolled around, she
    also had a little girl five years of age.

    She still lived in the same house where they dwelt when her father had left
    and never returned.

    One night by a remarkable coincidence her little girl was taken with cramp
    colic on the anniversary of the disappearance of John Smothers, who would
    now have been her grandfather if he had been alive and had a steady job.

    "I will go downtown and get some medicine for her," said John Smith (for it
    was none other than he whom she had married).

    "No, no, dear John," cried his wife. "You, too, might disappear forever, and
    then forget to come back."

    So John Smith did not go, and together they sat by the bedside of little Pansy
    (for that was Pansy's name).
    After a little Pansy seemed to grow worse, and John Smith again attempted to
    go for medicine, but his wife would not let him.

    Suddenly the door opened, and an old man, stooped and bent, with long white
    hair, entered the room.

    "Hello, here is grandpa," said Pansy. She had recognized him before any of
    the others.

    The old man drew a bottle of medicine from his pocket and gave Pansy a
    spoonful.

    She got well immediately.

    "I was a little late," said John Smothers, "as I waited for a street car."

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