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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories.Last week we brought you the first of four programs called "A Princess of Mars". Our story is from a series of books by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. They are science fiction stories, a mix of imagination and science. Last week we met John Cater who begins the story. He enters a cave deep in the desert in the State of Arizona
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(MUSIC)Our story today is called "Rappaccini’s Daughter." It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We will tell the story in two parts. Here is Kay Gallant with the first part of our story. (MUSIC)Storyteller: Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in northern Italy. He rented a small room on the top floor of a dark and ancient palace.
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The western American city of San Francisco, California suffered a huge earthquake on April eighteenth, nineteen-oh-six. More than three thousand people are known to have died. The true number of dead will never be known. Two hundred fifty thousand people lost their homes. Just a few hours after the terrible earthquake, a magazine named Collier’s sent a telegraph message to the famous Americ
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(MUSIC)Our story this week is "Keesh." It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep O’Neal to tell you the story. (MUSIC)Storyteller: Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. He had seen thirteen suns in the Eskimo way of keeping time. Among the Eskimos, the sun each winter leaves the land in darkness. And the next year, a new sun returns, so it might be warm again. The father of
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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called "Prelude". It was written by Edgar Valentine Smith. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. Salina Joe Hutshel was born in a cabin that had two rooms, one small window, and a dirt floor. Her parents, Shag and Marty Hutshel, built the little house in one day with the help of their families and friends. Salina Joe
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This is the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called ''All the Years of Her Life''. It was written by Morley Callaghan, here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. The drug store was beginning to close for the night. Young Alfred Higgins who worked in the store was putting on his coat, getting ready to go home. On his way out, he passed Mr. Sam Carr, the little gray
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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called "The White Circle". It was written by John Bill Coliton. Here's Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. As soon as I saw Anvol sitting in the apple tree, I knew we would fight, I also knew, he would win. But winning or losing was not important, at least not so important as getting him down from the tree. The tree w
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Now the Special English Program American Stories. Our Story is called ''The Diamond Lens''. It was written by Fitz-James O'Brien. Today we will hear the second and final part of the story. Here is Maurice Joyce with part two of ''The Diamond Lens''. When I was a child, someone gave me a microscope. I spent hours looking through that microscope, exploring nature's tiny secrets. As I grew up, I bec
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Now the Special English program, American stories. Our story today is called ''The Diamond Lens''. It was written by Fitz-James O'Brien. We will tell the story in two parts. Now here is Maurice Joyce with part one of ''The Diamond Lens''. When I was ten years old, one of my older cousins gave me a microscope. The first time, I looked through it magic lens, the clouds that surrounded my daily life
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Now the Special English program American Stories. Today's story is called ''Light and Gentle Things''. It was written by William Sayers. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. The snow kept coming down, quietly, ghost-like, covering the land deeper and deeper. It seemed as if it would go on forever. It was the first snowfall of the year. Billy looked through the kitchen window, he felt like diving
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Now, a VOA Special English story for the New Year. It is called "Bright Hill". Our storyteller is Shep O'Neal. A few days before Christmas, Chantal Yardley visited Jacob Samuels in the old people's home. "Do you know they aim to blow it up?" said Mr. Samuels as he looked out a window. His face was nearly the same red as the hanging Christmas decorations. He was angry at the
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Now VOA Special English presents a special program for the holiday season. Our story today is a special one for Christmas. It is ''Why the Chimes Rang''. It was written by Raymond MacDonald Alden. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. In a faraway country where few people have ever traveled, there was once a wonderful church. It stood on a high hill in a great city. Every Sunday and on holidays lik
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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story is called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. A friend of mine in the East asked me to visit old Simon Wheeler, to ask about my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. I did as my friend asked me to do and this story is the result. I found Simon Whee
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Now the VOA Special English Program--American Stories. Today we complete the story ''Paul's Case''. It was written by Willa Cather. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. Paul was a student with a lot of problems. He hated school. He didn't like living with his family on Cordelia Street in the industrial city of Pittsburgh. Paul wanted to be surrounded by beautiful things. He loved his part-time jo
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Now the VOA Special English Program American Stories. Our story today is called Paul's Case. It was written by Willa Cather. Paul's Case will be told in two parts. Here is Kate Gland with part one of the story. Paul hated school. He did not do his homework. He did not like his teachers. Paul's father did not know what to do with him. His teachers did not know either. One afternoon, all his teache
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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story is called "The Animals Give Themselves" from the book Cloud Walker by Joe Montour published by Forum Publishing. Mr. Montour is a native American from the Mohar nation. He has written stories about young native Americans who grow up in American cities and do not always know a lot about their Indian traditions. Here is Faith
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Now, an American short story in Special English. Our story today is "The Devil and Tom Walker. " It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Before we begin our story, let us go back 300 years to the late 1600s. In those years, one of the most famous men in the world was Captain William Kidd. Captain Kidd was a pirate. He sailed the seas, capturing any shi
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Now the Special English program American Stories. And our story today is called ''Judge''. It was written by Walter D. Edmonds. Here is Harry Monroe with the final part of our story. When Charlie Hestle died, he left a wife and nine children. They lived on a small piece of land in a house with four rooms. Since John was the oldest boy, his mother told him he would have to take care of the family.
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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Judge. It was written by Walter D. Edmonds. We will hear part one of the story today and part two next week. Here is Harry Monroe with our story. When Charlie Hestle died, he left a wife and nine children. They lived on a small piece of land in a house with four rooms. John was the oldest boy. He was 16 years old and tall
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Now, the weekly Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. Our story today is called "The Cask of Amontillado." It was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Larry West with the story. Storyteller: Fortunato and I both were members of very old and important Italian families. We used to play together when we were children. Fortunato was bigger, richer and more handsome than I was. And he
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The Special English program -- AMERICAN STORIES. Our story today is called "About a Place Called Gabrielle's". It was written by Robert Paul Smith. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. There are a hundred places in New York like Gabriel's. Up front is a small bar, in back there are a few booths and a half of dozen tables, the husband is the cook, and the wife takes care of the bar. It ha
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Of the VOA Special English program, American Stories. Our story is called Jacob Have I Loved ,by Katherine Paterson. It received the Newbery Award for the best book written for young people in the United States. The story takes place on Rass Island in the Chesapeake Bay along the eastern coast of the United States, near Maryland and Virginia. The story is told by Sara Louise Bradshaw, a 13-year-
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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Today we tell a traditional American story called a tall tale. A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life. The descriptions in the story are exaggerated -- much greater than in real life. Long ago, the people who settled in undeveloped areas of America first told tall tales. After a hard day’s work, people gathered to te
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And now the weekly VOA Special English program of American Stories. Our story today is called A Municipal Report. It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville Tennessee, a slow grey rain. I was tired, so I went straight to my hotel. A big heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Somethin
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The weekly Special English program - American Stories. Our story today is called "To Build a Fire". It was written by Jack London. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. The man walked down the trail on a cold gray day. Pure white snow and ice covered the earth for as far as he could see. This was his first winter in Alaska. He was wearing heavy clothes and fur boots. But he still felt co
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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called "Luck". It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story.I was at a dinner in London given an honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant General Lord Arthur Scoresby. I can not describe
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Now, the Special English program American Stories.Today, we bring you the second part of the story Golden Wedding written by Ruth Suckow. Last week we told you about Mr. and Mrs. Willie, they felt old and thought nobody cared about them. Then to their great surprise, their children gave them a lovely party to celebrate their fifty years of marriage - their golden wedding anniversary! And what a d
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Our story today is called Golden Wedding. It was written by Ruth Suckow. Here is Shirley Griffith to tell you the story.Mrs. Willie turn to her husband and said, "Pa, you are to change your clothes. " "Why are you in such a hurry?" "Well," she answered, "you want to be ready when George comes, don't you?" "Oh, he will not come, how can he get his car t
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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Today's story is called "The White Heron". It was written by Sarah Orne Jewett. Here is Kay Gallant with the story.The forest was full of shadows as a little girl hurried through it one summer evening in June. It was already eight o'clock and Sylvie wondered if her grandmother would be angry with her for being so late. Every evening, Sy
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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Today, we tell a story by Patricia Collinge. Collinge was an American writer and actor. She was famous for her work in plays, movies and television. In the following story, Collinge writes about an American husband and wife enjoying a visit to Rome. The husband also learned something about his wife. Here is Shirley Griffith with the story Cia
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