ro-me-o

Updated: June 29, 2025

"Say how's your parrot? How's your beau Ro-me-o?" At this, understood to be a parting shot, the crowd strung along the rail of the Fall of Rome burst into an appreciative titter. Mrs. Tuttle, reddening, made no answer, but Mr. Tinneray, standing by and knowing what he knew, seized this opportunity to call down vociferously, "Oh he's good, Romeo is.

- The Best Short Stories of 1917: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story