TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- One Dollar's Worth

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY One Dollar's Worth Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY One Dollar s Worth The judge of the United States court of the district lying along the Rio Grande border found the following letter one morning in his mail JUDGE When you sent me up for four years you made a talk. Among other hard things you called me a rattlesnake. Maybe I am one -- anyhow you hear me rattling 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. And I m going to bite that district attorney that spoke against me. I m free now and I guess I ve turned to rattlesnake all right. I feel like one. I don t say much but this is my rattle. Look out when I strike. Yours respectfully RATTLESNAKE. Judge Derwent threw the letter carelessly aside. It was nothing new to receive such epistles from desperate men whom he had been called upon to judge. He felt no alarm. Later on he showed the letter to Littlefield the young district attorney for Littlefield s name was included in the threat and the judge was punctilious in matters between himself and his fellow men. Littlefield honoured the rattle of the writer as far as it concerned himself with a smile of contempt but he frowned a little over the reference to the Judge s daughter for he and Nancy Derwent were to be married in the fall. Littlefield went to the clerk of the court and looked over the records with him. They decided that the letter might have been sent by Mexico Sam a half-breed border desperado who had been imprisoned for manslaughter four years before. Then official duties crowded the mat- ter from his mind and the rattle of the revengeful serpent was forgotten. Court was in session at Brownsville. Most of the cases to be tried were charges of smuggling counterfeiting post-office robberies and violations of Federal laws along the border. One case was that of a young Mexican Rafael Ortiz who had been rounded up by a clever deputy .

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