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Short stories from 100 Selected Stories, by O Henry ï‚® The Gift of the Magi ï‚® A Cosmopolite in a Café ï‚® Between Rounds ï‚® The Skylight Room ï‚® A Service of Love ï‚® The Coming-Out of Maggie ï‚® The Cop and the Anthem ï‚® Memoirs of a Yellow Dog ï‚® The Love-philtre of Ikey Shoenstein ï‚® The Furnished Room ï‚® The Last Leaf ï‚® The Poet and the Peasant ï‚® A Ramble in Aphasia ï‚® A Municipal Report ï‚® Proof of the Pudding I  The Gift of the Magi  ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all. And sixty  cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by  bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher  until one's cheek burned with the silent imputation of parsimony  that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it.  One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be  Christmas.  There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the  shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the  moral reflectio