This story was the first which William Sydney Poerter published under the pseudonym O. Henry, and appeared in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. It was later collected in Roads of Destiny, of which the earliest edition in the Library of Congress catalog was in 1913.
100 Christmas Classics
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Max Brand, George MacDonald, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Guy de Maupassant, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Armando Palacio Valdés, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Livingston Sedgwick, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Beatrix Potter, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Bret Harte, Lucas Malet, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Saki, François Coppée, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Kate Upson Clark, Ernest Ingersoll, Willis Boyd Allen, F. L. Stealey, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. A Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. C Pickthall, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry van Dyke, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Madame d'Aulnoy, A. S. Boyd, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Brothers Grimm, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. L Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Raymond McAlden, Pedro A. de Alarcón, Maxime du Camp
bookChills & Goosebumps for Holidays
Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, William Douglas O'Connor, Catherine Crowe, Louisa M. Alcott, James, G.K. Chesterton, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy
book7 best short stories - Dogs
Mary E. Freeman, Susan Glaspell, Stephen Crane, Ivan Turgenev, O. Henry, Jack London, Mark Twain
bookThe Ultimate Christmas Reading: 400 Christmas Novels Stories Poems Carols Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, Pocket Classic
bookThe Gift of the Magi
O. Henry, Pocket Classic
bookThe Gift of the Magi
O. Henry, HB Classics
bookThe Big Book of Christmas Tales : Ultimate Anthology - Over 500 Christmas Tales, Novels, Poems, Carols & Myths
Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, George Macdonald, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Selma Lagerlöf, Henry van Dyke, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Wallace, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Susan Coolidge, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Anton Chekhov
bookThe Ultimate Christmas Reading: 400 Christmas Novels Stories Poems Carols Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, HB Classics
bookThe Gift of the Magi and Other Tales of New York
O. Henry
bookMurder Mystery Collection for Christmas
Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford
bookThe Big Book of Classics for the Long Winter
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bookChristmas Collection - The Best Holiday Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends
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Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays
Annie Roe Carr, Golden Deer Classics
bookThe Burglar And The Wizard
Alice Duer Miller, Golden Deer Classics
bookChristian Gellert's Last Christmas
Berthold Auerbach, Golden Deer Classics
bookHow Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
Bret Harte, Golden Deer Classics
bookA Kidnapped Santa Claus
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bookA Christmas Tree
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bookNobody's Story
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bookThe Child's Story
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bookThe Chimes
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