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the natural history staff of Outing and still 

 later of the Photographic Times Annual Al- 

 manac. Her first stories were magazine con- 

 tributions, their success prophesying the wide 

 popularity of her novels. Her second novel, 

 A Girl oj the Limberlost, was translated into 

 Arabic to be used in the introduction of Ameri- 

 can methods of nature study into the College 

 of Cairo, Egypt. 



Her best-known works are The Song oj the 

 Cardinal, Freckles, What I Have Done with 

 Birds, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Birds of 

 the Bible, A Girl of the Limberlost, Music of 

 the Wild, The Ha \foths of the Lim- 



md Michael O'Halloran. 



PORTER, JANE (1776-1850), an English nov- 

 She was born at Durham, spent much 

 of her youth in Edinburgh, where she was edu- 

 1, and lived later in London and at Esher 

 in Surrey. Her publication of Thaddeus of 

 Warsaw in 1803 brought her great renown, 

 which was considerably increased by the ap- 

 pearance of The Scottish Chiefs in 1810. These 

 works, though inferior to those of Sir Walter 

 Scott, represent the best of the earliest histori- 

 cal romances in English. Another of her most 

 noteworthy writings is Sir Edward Seaward's 

 Xarrativc of His Shipwreck, an account of im- 

 agined incidents so realistically told as to have 

 been received as authentic by some of her read- 

 ers and cr; 



PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY (1867-1910), a 

 popular American author of short stories, who 

 <l i d almost at 

 the beginning of 

 a brilliant career. 

 The reading pub- 

 lic knew him as 

 KY, for un- 

 <1< r this name he 

 wrote the hu- 

 morous and real- 

 ties of the 

 lives of every- 

 day Americans so 

 read and 

 I. Mark 

 i M was a 

 worM humorist, WILLIAM SYI >NEY 



I'orterwases- pon 



. name Is tin:. 



sentially Amen- million* to wh- 



can. His clever ls a t"*" i*'- 

 use of the common street slang of the Ameri- 

 can city. In- hiii :il tym\ i thy and his keen in- 

 of the poor are best apprc- 



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For the benefit of his health, for he was not 

 a robust child, he was sent from his home in 

 Greensboro, N. C., to Texas. There he attended 

 school and worked on a ranch. He began his 

 literary career as a reporter on the staff of the 

 Houston Post, where his originality and wit 

 quickly won him recognition. He then bought 

 a paper known as the Iconoclast, which he 

 published and edited as The Rolling Stone, but 

 was not successful in this venture. Then fol- 

 lowed a visit to the fascinating land of Central 

 America, where he "knocked around," as he 

 expressed it, long enough to imbibe a good 

 deal of local color to be used later so effec- 

 tively in the "0. Henry" tales. After his re- 

 turn to America he worked for a brief period 

 in a Texas drug store (the source of more local 

 color) and then moved to New Orleans to work 

 seriously as a writer of short stories for the 

 daily papers. Finally he settled down in New 

 York, where he did his finest work. In that 

 city he died. 



In all, O. Henry wrote about 200 short sto- 

 ries, which have been collected under various 

 titles. Among the best of these collections are 

 The Four Million, The Trimmed Lamp, The 

 Voice of Lhe City, Cabbages and Kings and 

 Options. 



Consult Smith's O. Henry Biography. 



PORT HOPE, a town in Ontario, the county 

 town of Durham County. It is on the north 

 shore of Lake Ontario, sixty-three miles by the 

 shortest railway line east of Toronto. Cobourg 

 is six and one-half miles east of Port Hope, and 

 Belleville is fifty miles east. Port Hope is on 

 three of the Canadian trunk lines, the Cana- 

 dian Pacific, (ho Canadian Northern and the 

 Crank Trunk railways, and is also a port of 

 call for lake and Saint Lawrence RIVCJ- steam- 

 ers. It is a popular resort for summer visitors, 

 and is also an industrial center of importance, 

 among its leading manufacturing establish- 

 ments being iron-pipe works, flour and planing 

 mills, tanneries, and canning, pottery and car- 

 factories. Tl College School for 

 Boys is located at Port Hope. Population in 

 1911, 5,092; in 1916, estimated, 5.800. 



PORT HURON, Mini., a port of entry and 

 tin county seat of Saint Clair County, is situ- 

 ated on the east coast of the state, at the 

 southernmost point of Lake Huron. It is at 

 the mouth of the Black Rivrr. which here flows 

 into the Saint Clair River, and it is opj 

 Sarii with which it is connected by 



and by a river tunnel under the 



