the gift of magi.. end

And then she jumped up and cried, “Oh, oh!”

Jim had not yet seen his beautiful gift. She held it out to him in

her open hand. The gold seemed to shine softly as if with her own warm

and loving spirit.

“Isn’t it perfect, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You’ll have

to look at your watch a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch.

I want to see how they look together.”

Jim sat down and smiled.

“Della,” said he, “let’s put our Christmas gifts away and keep them

a while. They’re too nice to use now. I sold the watch to get the money

to buy the combs. And now I think we should have our dinner.”

The magi, as you know, were wise men—wonderfully wise men—

who brought gifts to the newborn Christ-child. They were the first to

give Christmas gifts. Being wise, their gifts were doubtless wise ones.

And here I have told you the story of two children who were not wise.

Each sold the most valuable thing he owned in order to buy a gift for

the other. But let me speak a last word to the wise of these days: Of all

who give gifts, these two were the most wise. Of all who give and receive

gifts, such as they are the most wise. Everywhere they are the wise ones.

They are the magi.

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ALL CREDITS GOES TO O HENRY FOR THIS STORY.

ADAPTED FROM "THE GIFT OF MAGI" BY O HENRY.

BY ASH~

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William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and later moved to Texas in 1882. It was there that he met his wife, Athol Estes, with whom he had two children. In 1902, after the death of his wife, Porter moved to New York, where he soon remarried. It was while he was in New York that Porter's most intensive writing period occurred, with Porter writing 381 short stories.

Porter's works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief". His stories are known for their surprise endings and witty narration. Porter also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

Porter's legacy includes the O. Henry Award, an annual prize awarded to outstanding short stories..

Porter used a number of pen names (including "O. Henry" or "Olivier Henry") in the early part of his writing career; other names included S.H. Peters, James L. Bliss, T.B. Dowd, and Howard Clark.Nevertheless, the name "O. Henry" seemed to garner the most attention from editors and the public, and was used exclusively by Porter for his writing by about 1902. He gave various explanations for the origin of his pen name.In 1909 he gave an interview to The New York Times, in which he gave an account of it:

It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me pick out a good one." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it. In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here we have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I. "Now for a first name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don't you use a plain initial letter, then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is." A newspaper once wrote and asked me what the O stands for. I replied, "O stands for Olivier, the French for Oliver." And several of my stories accordingly appeared in that paper under the name Olivier Henry

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