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Written by O. HenryNow, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES.(MUSIC)We present the short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story.(MUSIC)STORYTELLER:It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you. We were down south, in Alabama – Bill Driscoll and myself – when this kidnapping idea struck us. There was a town down there, as flat as a pancake, and called Summit. Bill and I had about six hundred dollars. We needed just two thousand dollars more for an illegal land deal in Illinois.We chose for our victim -- the only child of an influential citizen named Ebenezer Dorset. He was a boy of ten, with red hair. Bill and I thought that Ebenezer would pay a ransom of two thousand dollars to get his boy back. But wait till I tell you.About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with cedar trees. There was an opening on the back of the mountain. We stored our supplies in that cave.One night, we drove a horse and carriage past old Dorset's house. The boy was in the street, throwing rocks at a cat on the opposite fence."Hey little boy!" says Bill, "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?"The boy hits Bill directly in the eye with a piece of rock.That boy put up a fight like a wild animal. But, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the carriage and drove away.We took him up to the cave. The boy had two large bird feathers stuck in his hair. He points a stick at me and says:"Ha! Paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?""He's all right now," says Bill, rolling up his pants and examining wounds on his legs. "We're playing Indian. I'm Old Hank, the trapper, Red Chief's captive. I'm going to be scalped at daybreak. By Geronimo! That kid can kick hard.""Red Chief," says I to the boy, "would you like to go home?""Aw, what for?" says he. "I don't have any fun at home. I hate to go to school. I like to camp out. You won't take me back home again, will you?""Not right away," says I. "We'll stay here in the cave a while.""All right!" says he. "That'll be fine. I never had such fun in all my life."(MUSIC)We went to bed about eleven o'clock. Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of terrible screams from Bill. Red Chief was sitting on Bill's chest, with one hand holding his hair. In the other, he had a sharp knife. He was attempting to cut off the top of Bill's head, based on what he had declared the night before.I got the knife away from the boy. But, after that event, Bill's spirit was broken. He lay down, but he never closed an eye again in sleep as long as that boy was with us."Do you think anybody will pay out money to get a little imp like that back home?" Bill asked."Sure," I said. "A boy like that is just the kind that parents love. Now, you and the Chief get up and make something to eat, while I go up on the top of this mountain and look around."I climbed to the top of the mountain. Over toward Summit, I expected to see the men of the village searching the countryside. But all was peaceful."Perhaps," says I to myself, "it has not yet been discovered that the wolves have taken the lamb from the fold." I went back down the mountain.When I got to the cave, I found Bill backed up against the side of it. He was breathing hard, with the boy threatening to strike him with a rock."He put a red-hot potato down my back," explained Bill, "and then crushed it with his foot. I hit his ears. Have you got a gun with you, Sam?"I took the rock away from the boy and ended the argument."I'll fix you," says the boy to Bill. "No man ever yet struck the Red Chief but what he got paid for it. You better be careful!"After eating, the boy takes a leather object with strings tied around it from his clothes and goes outside the cave unwinding it. Then we heard a kind of shout. It was Red Chief holding a sling in one hand. He moved it faster and faster around his head.Just then I heard a heavy sound and a deep breath from Bill. A rock the size of an egg had hit him just behind his left ear. Bill fell in the fire across the frying pan of hot water for washing the dishes. I pulled him out and poured cold water on his head for half an hour.Then I went out and caught that boy and shook him."If your behavior doesn't improve," says I, "I'll take you straight home. Now, are you going to be good, or not?""I was only funning," says he. "I didn't mean to hurt Old Hank. But what did he hit me for? I'll behave if you don't send me home."I thought it best to send a letter to old man Dorset that day, demanding the ransom and telling how it should be paid. The letter said:"We have your boy hidden in a place far from Summit. We demand fifteen hundred dollars for his return; the money to be left at midnight tonight at the same place and in the same box as your answer.If you agree to these terms, send the answer in writing by a messenger tonight at half past eight o'clock. After crossing Owl Creek, on the road to Poplar Cove, there are three large trees. At the bottom of the fence, opposite the third tree, will be a small box. The messenger will place the answer in this box and return immediately to Summit. If you fail to agree to our demand, you will never see your boy again. If you pay the money as demanded, he will be returned to you safe and well within three hours."I took the letter and walked over to Poplar Cove. I then sat around the post office and store. An old man there says he hears Summit is all worried because of Ebenezer Dorset's boy having been lost or stolen. That was all I wanted to know. I mailed my letter and left. The postmaster said the mail carrier would come by in an hour to take the mail on to Summit.(MUSIC)At half past eight, I was up in the third tree, waiting for the messenger to arrive. Exactly on time, a half-grown boy rides up the road on a bicycle. He finds the box at the foot of the fence. He puts a folded piece of paper into it and leaves, turning back toward Summit.I slid down the tree, got the note and was back at the cave in a half hour. I opened the note and read it to Bill. This is what it said:"Gentlemen: I received your letter about the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands. I hereby make you a counter-proposal, which I believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night because the neighbors believe he is lost. And, I could not be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back. Very respectfully, Ebenezer Dorset.""Great pirates of Penzance!" says I, "of all the nerve..." But I looked at Bill and stopped. He had the most appealing look in his eyes I ever saw on the face of a dumb or talking animal."Sam," says he, "what's two hundred and fifty dollars, after all? We've got the money. One more night of this boy will drive me crazy. I think Mister Dorset is making us a good offer. You aren't going to let the chance go, are you?""Tell you the truth, Bill," says I, "this little lamb has got on my nerves, too. We'll take him home, pay the ransom and make our get-away."We took him home that night. We got him to go by telling him that his father had bought him a gun and we were going to hunt bears the next day.It was twelve o'clock when we knocked on Ebenezer's front door. Bill counted out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand.When the boy learned we were planning to leave him at home, he started to cry loudly and held himself as tight as he could to Bill's leg. His father pulled him away slowly."How long can you hold him?" asks Bill."I'm not as strong as I used to be," says old Dorset, "but I think I can promise you ten minutes.""Enough," says Bill. "In ten minutes, I shall cross the Central, Southern and Middle Western states, and be running for the Canadian border."And, as dark as it was, and as fat as Bill was, and as good a runner as I am, he was a good mile and a half out of Summit before I could catch up with him.(MUSIC)ANNOUNCER:You have heard the American Story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. Your storyteller was Shep O'Neal. This story was adapted into Special English by Shelley Gollust. It was produced by Lawan Davis. Listen again next week for another American Story in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.

　　读《红酋长的赎金》有感 今天我读了美国著名作家欧·亨利写的文章《红酋长的赎金》。文章的大意是：我和朋友比尔来到一个地方，因为缺钱，所以想起了绑架的勾当。我们看上了一个有地位的人。我们把他的独生子绑架在一个山洞里，哪知道那孩子却喜欢这儿，而且把比尔整得不像样。一会儿要把比尔的头发给割掉，一会儿把比尔当马骑，一会儿给比尔吃沙子。他爸爸还要我们给他250元钱。比尔受不了，求我答应条件，我们只好这样。把他送回去，又付了钱，然后逃跑到很远很远的地方。 我特别喜欢文中这几句话：“天刚亮，比尔的一连串可怕的尖叫惊醒了我。那声音不像是男人发声器官里发出来的叫、嚷、呼、喊或者狂嗥，而是像女人见到鬼或者毛毛虫时发出的粗鄙、可怕而丢脸的尖叫。天蒙蒙亮的时候，听到一个粗壮结实的不法之徒在山洞里这样没命地叫个不停，真是件倒胃口的事。”还有“我跳起来看看究竟出了什么事，只见红酋长骑在比尔的胸口上,一手揪住比尔的头发,一手握住我们切熏肉的快刀。快乐地根据昨天晚上对比尔宣布的决定，起劲而认真地想剥比尔的头皮。……” 读了这篇文章之后，我觉得一个小孩子把两个绑架者玩得团团转，不但没有认为自已被绑架而害怕，反而觉得自已在一个快乐的天地里，还让“我们”给了他爸爸250元钱。这就是好有好报，恶有恶报的结局。我劝一些人千万不要干坏事，不然就像书中的两个人一样，没有好下场 。

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