The Burglar's Christmas
By Willa Cather
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie. She worked as a newspaper writer, teacher, and managing editor of McClure's magazine. In addition to My Ántonia, her books include O Pioneers! (1913) and The Professor's House. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours.
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The Burglar's Christmas - Willa Cather
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The Burglar’s Christmas
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THE BURGLAR’S CHRISTMAS
THE BURGLAR’S CHRISTMAS
Two very shabby looking young men stood at the corner of Prairie Avenue and Eightieth Street, looking despondently at the carriages that whirled by. It was Christmas Eve, and the streets were full of vehicles; florists’ wagons, grocers’ carts and carriages. The streets were in that half-liquid, half-congealed condition peculiar to the streets of Chicago at that season of the year. The swift wheels that spun by sometimes threw the slush of mud and snow over the two young men who were talking on the corner.
Well,
remarked the elder of the two, I guess we are at our rope’s end, sure enough. How do you feel?
Pretty shaky. The wind’s sharp tonight. If I had had anything to eat I mightn’t mind it so much. There is simply no show. I’m sick of the whole business. Looks like there’s nothing for it but the lake.
O, nonsense, I thought you had more grit. Got anything left you can hock?
Nothing but my beard, and I am afraid they wouldn’t find it worth a pawn ticket," said the younger man ruefully, rubbing the week’s growth of stubble on his