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Excerpt from Bagdad on the Subway
The languor of the tropics; the sunlit seas with their open bays and broad sanded beaches, with green palms nodding on the slopes above, - white-painted steamers lazily at anchor, - quaint Spanish towns, with adobe houses and wide squares, sunk in their noon day sleep, - beautiful Senoritas drowsing away the afternoon in hammocks; the tinkling of the mule bells on the mountain track above the town, - the cries of unknown birds issuing from the dense green of the unbroken jungle - and at night in the soft darkness, the low murmur of the guitar, soft thrumming with the voice of love - these are the sights and sounds of O. Henry's Central America. Here live and move his tattered revolutionists, his gaudy generals of the mimic army of the existing republic; hither ply his white-painted steamers of the fruit trade; here the American consul, with a shadowed past and $600 a year, drinks away the remembrance of his northern energy and his college education in the land of forgetfuln'ess. Hither the absconding banker from the States is dropped from the passing steamer, clutching tight 'extradited from Bohemia' Poor little letter! When Hoskins out fiir New York City as fast as when he got there - 'but it's all told in one more of his wonderful stories.
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