The Ransom of Red Chief

The Ransom of Red Chief is a 1907 short story by O. Henry first published in The Saturday Evening Post. It follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabaman s son; eventually, the men are driven to distraction by the boy s spoiled and hyperactive behavior, and end up having to pay the boy s father to take him back. Theatre of Kyiv gymnasium 19 Mezhyhirska