Now, the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Pigs Is Pigs. It was written by Ellis Parker Butler. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. Mike Flannery, the agent of the Interurban Express Company leaned over the des...
Our story today is called The Gatewood Caper. It was written by Dashielll Hammett. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. Millionaire Harvey Gatewood had a desk as big as a bed in the middle of his office. He looked almost as big as his desk. Gatewood...
This week's story is called Tomatoes. It was written by John Robinson Junior. Here is Walter Gathery with our story. Mother let no one touch the tomatoes. Why? was a mystery to me. I watched her working in the tomato patch. Her sun-browned hands seem...
Today's story is adapted from the young adult novel Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn. This book won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The story is about Margaret Bayger, an 11-year-old girl. She tells her about her life in a s...
Abel Halleck was 59 years old when his wife Estelle died. Her death was sudden and unexpected, the kind of death you cannot forget. Abel Halleck buried his wife, then, he stopped doing anything. His work, the world, life and all its possibilities wer...
As a boy Knute Axelbrod always wanted to be a student. But he never had time to learn. He married young and had to work to get money to educate his children. But a lifetime of hard farm work did not destroy his love for books and beauty. His wife die...
Mr. Dow's store was widely known throughout the neighborhood. It sold many different things. Both old and young came here to shop for special items. They could find kitchens, large and small wallets to hold coins and paper money, packs of playing car...
Jane got up from under her warm bedcovers and faced the cold of her room. It was another New Year's Day. In the bathroom she looked at herself in the mirror. Nothing had changed except the lines around her eyes and mouth looked deeper. Jane was 49 ye...
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it were smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the man at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotiating until one's face b...
Ben was awakened by a gunshot. The sharp noise came through the thick stonewalls of the house. It was cold in the bedroom. Ben Newman was shaking as he got out of bed. He put on his eyeglasses and went over to the window. The field was covered with w...