Answer these questions within 20 words each.
1. What time does the story begin?
2. Where was the man from the West
leaning?
3. When was 'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant pulled down?
4. Where were Jimmy and Bob raised?
Answers
Answer:which story is this
Explanation:
Answer:
please mark it as a best answer
Explanation:
Why couldn't Jimmy arrest Bob himself in "After Twenty Years"?
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by O. Henry
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