Excerpt from Southern Literary Studies: A Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other Sketches Porter, whose biographer one day he was to be when Will was known throughout the civilized world as O. Henry. They camped together and they belonged to the same Serenading Club: Alphonso played the guitar, but Will played a silent tenor violin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.