Whirligigs(生活的陀螺)
O. Henry
THE WORLD AND THE DOOR
A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to
assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than
Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is
true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamerEl
Carreroswore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that
he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz—a person who
could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them.
As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it
by affirming that I read in a purely fictional story the other day
the line: "'Be it so,' said the policeman." Nothing so strange has
yet cropped out in Truth.
When H. Ferguson Hedges, millionaire promoter, investor and
man-about- New-York, turned his thoughts upon matters convivial,
an…