The Trimmed Lamp (1907)

by O. Henry

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“Wooed her across the counter with a King Cophetua air”

THE TRIMMED LAMP

 

THE

Trimmed Lamp

AND OTHER STORIES OF THE FOUR MILLION

BY

O. HENRY

Author of Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, etc.

Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVII

Copyright, 1907, by McClure, Phillips & Co.

Published April, 1907

 

Copyright, 1906, by The S. S. McClure Co.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Trimmed Lamp	3
A Madison Square Arabian Night	22
The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball	32
The Pendulum	42
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen	50
The Assessor of Success	59
The Buyer from Cactus City	70
The Badge of Policeman O’Roon	81
Brickdust Row	89
The Making of a New Yorker	102
Vanity and Some Sables	111
The Social Triangle	121
The Purple Dress	130
The Foreign Policy of Company 99	139
The Lost Blend	150
A Harlem Tragedy	159
“The Guilty Party”—An East Side Tragedy	169
According to Their Lights	179
A Midsummer Knight’s Dream	189
The Last Leaf	198
The Count and the Wedding Guest	209
The Country of Elusion	219
The Ferry of Unfulfilment	233
The Tale of a Tainted Tenner	240
Elsie in New York	249