TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Caballero's Way

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Caballero's Way 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 The Caballero s Way The Cisco Kid had killed six men in more or less fair scrimmages had murdered twice as many mostly Mexicans and had winged a larger number whom he modestly forbore to count. Therefore a woman loved him. The Kid was twenty-five looked twenty and a careful insurance company would have estimated the probable time of his demise at say twenty-six. His habitat was anywhere between the Frio and the Rio Grande. He killed for the love of it--because he was quick-tempered-- to avoid arrest--for his own amusement--any reason that came to his mind would suffice. He had escaped capture because he could shoot five-sixths of a second sooner than any sheriff or ranger in the service and because he rode a speckled roan horse that knew every cow-path in the mesquite and pear thickets from San Antonio to Matamoras. Tonia Perez the girl who loved the Cisco Kid was half Carmen half Madonna and the rest--oh yes a woman who is half Carmen and half Madonna can always be something more--the rest let us say was hummingbird. She lived in a grass-roofed jacal near a little Mexican settlement at the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio. With her lived a father or grandfather a lineal Aztec somewhat less than a thousand years old who herded a hundred goats and lived in a continuous drunken dream from drinking mescal. Back of the jacal a tremendous forest of bristling pear twenty feet high at its worst crowded almost to its door. It was along the bewildering maze of this spinous thicket that the speckled roan would bring the Kid to see his girl. And once clinging like a lizard to the ridge-pole high up under the peaked grass roof he had heard Tonia with her Madonna face and Carmen beauty and humming-bird soul parley with the sheriff s posse denying knowledge of her man in her soft melange of Spanish and English. One day the adjutant-general of the State who is ex offico commander of the ranger forces wrote some sarcastic lines to Captain Duval of Company X .

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