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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us--that's what they sing.

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Stuff
Piece
Littles
York
Jays
Ever
Paper
Hudson
Close
Buzzing
Little
Listen
Cosmopolitan
Enough
Pieces
Sticky
Trying
Feet
Pull
Good
Call
Sing

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