stickability

Updated: May 7, 2025

Several ne'er-do-wells, long on impulse and short on stickability, drifted back to more comfortable quarters during the day, contending that if Hap were captured, the officers would claim the reward anyhow so what was the use bucking the System? The snowfall stopped in the early morning. Sunrise disclosed the world trimmed from horizon to horizon in fairy fluff.

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920