A Cosmopolite in a Cafe

O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, was American author of hundreds of short stories. His works are well known throughout the world, noted for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

“A Cosmopolite in a Café’ is a story published in 1906. The action took place in a café at the evening, when it was crowded with many people. The narrator sat at small table and with two vacant chairs. Everything started when a cosmopolite sat in one of the vacant chairs and started the conversation. The cosmopolite was named E. Rushmore Coglan, and he had been all over the world, and knew a lot about the world also. But at the same time, he unexplainably spoke disrespectful of the some place on the planet…