Cabbages and Kings

By O. Henry

Subjects: Short stories, New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs, New york (n.y.), fiction, Classic Literature

Description: They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that one hundred thousand dollars, government funds, which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered. Cabbages and Kings was O. Henry's first collection of short stories, published in 1904.