The Gift of Magi

'The Gift of the Magi' is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with a particular challenge. Read on to know more... 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 cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And...