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 O .   H E N R Y 
Collected Works
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Cabbages And Kings
Heart of The West
Options
Roads of Destiny
Rolling Stones
Sixes and Sevens
Strictly Business
The Four Million
The Gentle Grafter
The Trimmed Lamp
The Voice of The City
Waifs and Strays
Whirligigs
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CABBAGES AND KINGS
by
O. HENRY
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax,
And cabbages and kings."
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
Table of Content
THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER
I.
"FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"
II.
THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE
III.
SMITH
IV.
CAUGHT
V.
CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO
VI.
THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT
VII.
MONEY MAZE
VIII.
THE ADMIRAL
IX.
THE FLAG PARAMOUNT
X.
THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM
XI.
THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE
XII.
SHOES
XIII.
SHIPS
XIV.
MASTERS OF ARTS
XV.
DICKY
XVI.
ROUGE ET NOIR
XVII.
TWO RECALLS
XVIII.
THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE

 
THE PROEM
BY THE CARPENTER
 
They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that one hundred thousand dollars, government funds, which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered.
For a real
, a boy will show you his grave. It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp. A plain slab of wood stands at its head. Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription:
 
RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES
Y MIRAFLORES
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA
DE ANCHURIA
QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS
 
It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they pursue no man beyond the grave. "Let God be his judge!"—Even with the hundred thousand unfound, though greatly coveted, the hue and cry went no further than that.
To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert, the young American opera singer; and how, being apprehended by members of the opposing political party in Coralio, he shot himself through the head rather than give ............

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