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A collection of 16 enjoyable short stories.
"THEROSE OF DIXIE" (excerpt)
When The Rose of Dixie magazine
was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was
never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds
of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all
the rights of learning, family, reputation, and Southern traditions,
he was its foreordained, fit, and logical editor. So, a committee of
the patriotic Georgia citizens who had subscribed the founding fund
of $100,000 called upon Colonel Telfair at his residence, Cedar
Heights, fearful lest the enterprise and the South should suffer by
his possible refusal.
The colonel received them in his great library,
where he spent most of his days. The library had descended to him
from his father. It contained ten thousand volumes, some of which had
been published as late as the year 1861. When the deputation arrived,
Colonel Telfair was seated at his massive white-pine centre-table,
reading Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." He arose and
shook hands punctiliously with each member of the committee. If you
were familiar with The Rose of Dixie you will
remember the colonel's portrait, which appeared in it from time to
time. You could not forget the long, carefully brushed white hair;
the hooked, high-bridged nose, slightly twisted to the left; the keen
eyes under the still black eyebrows; the classic mouth beneath the
drooping white mustache, slightly frazzled at the ends.
The committee solicitously offered him the
position of managing editor, humbly presenting an outline of the
field that the publication was designed to cover and mentioning a
comfortable salary. The colonel's lands were growing poorer each year
and were much cut up by red gullies. Besides, the honor was not one
to be refused.
In a forty-minute speech of acceptance, Colonel
Telfair gave an outline of English literature from Chaucer to
Macaulay, re-fought the battle of Chancellorsville, and said that,
God helping him, he would so conduct The Rose of Dixie that
its fragrance and beauty would permeate the entire world, hurling
back into the teeth of the Northern minions their belief that no
genius or good could exist in the brains and hearts of the people
whose property they had destroyed and whose rights they had
curtailed.
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their surprise endings.
He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898.Â
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