The Gift of the Magi

by O. Henry · language: en

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.

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