Christmas Story - Gift of the Magi - VOA Special English

12/23/2010 Short Story: ’The Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry by June Simms SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present a special Christmas story called “The Gift of the Magi“ by O. Henry. Here is Shep O’Neal with the story. SHEP O’NEAL: One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it in the smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the men at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotia