All-Story Weekly, March 1, 1919 — page 187: what you’re looking at

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Finish these Stories for Yourself The girl got $6 a week and was lonely. “ Piggy” —you can imagine his kind—was waiting down- stairs. He knew where champagne and music could be had. But that night she didn’t go. That was Lord Kitchener’s doing. But another night? O. Henry tells about it in a storv. Read it. Judge! When you sent me up for four years, youcalled mea rattlesnake. Maybe I am one—anyhow you can hear merattling now. One year after I got to the pen, my daughter died of — well, they said it was poverty and the disgrace together. You’ve got a daughter, Judge, and I’m going to make you know how it feels to lose one. I’m free now, and I guess I’ve turn- ed torattlesnake allright. Look out when I strike! Yours respectfully, - - RATTLESNAKE. This is the beginning of just ne of the 274 wonderful stories by O., Henry. ADVERTISING SECTION. & ~ ‘7 % ¥ a i’ MARCH 10 th * is the last day ~ _ For years you have read of O. Henry—you have read these advertisements and thought that some day you would own a set for yourself. And you have put off the sending from month to month. The time for that is gone. Now—today— you must order your set of O. Henry to get the low price and the Jack London FREE. So great is the popularity of O. Henry—so enormous is the demand for his books— that we should like for all time to offer you sets at the present low price. Butwecan't. It costs 41 per cent more to make the sets now than it did. Paper costs more—ink costs more—binding costs more. So the price hasto goup. But to give you one more chance to get the present price, we have put off the raise in price til! March 10th. That Is the last day. Send the coupon now and get your set of O. Henry at the present low price. So many sets of O. Henry have been printed that the old plates were entirely worn out, and we had to make brand new plates for this edition ; so you will get the very first impression from these new plates—the clearest, cleanest print you have ever seen. mothers of America— who suffer rather impulses, little vices, the same tragedies and joys... He shows that though he never than be bad—and of others. He shows met you, he knows your life inside out, backwards and forwards—he has written With a touch that brings a lump into 274 C | t St - you that the tired little shop girl, smoth- all about you somewhere in these twelve magnificent volumes. your throat, and a stifled sob, he tells you One Long Novel ered behind a pile of shirtwaists is a sister FREE ic, 5 VOLUMES ; London si aus of the underpaid drudges—the future to the debutante smothered in the cushions of her big limousine, with the same desires, $-1-19 Imitators have risen about him / His name has spread over the earth, in a cloud—fiatterers of his genius. He was a Norseman of the Western if seieoe coast. Through him we may drop our weight of everyday fears and 30 Irving Place deal with men—for he was bolder than all his heroes. See life with him in the rough —life, palpitating — latent — real. NEW TORK Get his / Send me on appro- best work absolutely free of charge. mg val, charges paid by you, O. Henry’s f works in 12 volumes, gold topa. Also the ff 5-volume set of London bound in cloth with gold SoS ; tops. If I kee This is your last chance to get 0. Henry at the low price. J 1 ORi remit xeths, Books. Don’t miss it. Remember one day’s delay may make you too os for 17 montha for the O. Henry late. Be sure your coupon is mailed on or before March 10th, set only and retain the London and the best way to make sure is to mail the couponright / will: hal age rae now. Up—up—up—e2o0es the sale of O. Henry—higher and F sets at your expense. " higher every day. Two million six hundred thousand in the United States alone. How many thousands in f Wiamar ou. Tat 2's. asics eel hee to Australia, France, England, Africa, Asia, we cannot tell. And you can have the books on approval at SPM cas 05 eg ee the low price with Jack London FREE. Don’t af fbotial 2. Ke TS é s*, " ¥ , 7 . wait. SEND THE COUPON NOW. The beautiful three-quarter leather style bind- REVIEW OF REVIEWS ¢ ae euioe Boe ing of O. Henry costs only a few cents more a volume and has proved a favorite, For a set F in this luxurious binding send $1,560 for 15 months. In answering this advertisement it te desirable that you mention this magazine. Go 0X00) w= ad ae ey a