tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -He Also Serves

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY He Also Serves Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY He Also Serves If I could have a thousand years--just one little thousand years--more of life I might in that time draw near enough to true Romance to touch the hem of her robe. Up from ships men come and from waste places and forest and road and garret and cellar to maunder to me in strangely distributed words of the things they have seen and considered. The recording of their tales is no more than a matter of ears and fingers. There are only two fates I dread--deafness and writer s cramp. The hand is yet steady let the ear bear the blame if these printed words be not in the order they were delivered to me by Hunky Magee true camp-follower of fortune. Biography shall claim you but an instant--I first knew Hunky when he was head-waiter at Chubb s little beefsteak restaurant and cafe on Third Avenue. There was only one waiter besides. Then successively I caromed against him in the little streets of the Big City after his trip to Alaska his voyage as cook with a treasure- seeking expedition to the Caribbean and his failure as a pearl-fisher in the Arkansas River. Between these dashes into the land of adventure he usually came back to Chubb s for a while. Chubb s was a port for him when gales blew too high but when you dined there and Hunky went for your steak you never knew whether he would come to anchor in the kitchen or in the Malayan Archipelago. You wouldn t care for his description--he was soft of voice and hard of face and rarely had to use more than one eye to quell any approach to a disturbance among Chubb s customers. One night I found Hunky standing at a corner of Twenty-third Street and Third Avenue after an absence of several months. In ten minutes we had a little round table between us in a quiet corner and my ears began to get busy. I leave out my sly ruses and feints to draw Hunky s word-of-mouth blows--it all came to something like this Speaking of the next election said Hunky did you ever know much about Indians No I don t .