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Question

does anyone know the story of pimienta pancakes by o. henry? i dont really understand it. explaining would be good. kk thnxx <3

Answer 1

Jud is the camp cook for cowmen (hired hands - from a ranch - who tend cattle, a lot of their duties are done on horseback). One of the hired hands is injured and can&#039;t do his work, so he asks Jud to make him pancakes. At first Jud thinks he&#039;s poking fun at him, but, when he realizes he&#039;s not, Jud tells him his pancake story.

One day, Judd (who was then working as a cowpunch or cowboy) decided he wanted to eat some canned food - anything other than the food cowboys usually ate like mutton and beef. To get this canned food, he goes to Pimienta Crossing where Emsley&#039;s store is situated (in the old west, those stores would have just about everything from canned goods to bolts of cloth).

While he&#039;s in the store, he sees a young woman, finds out she&#039;s Emsley&#039;s niece Willella, and meets her. From then on they start what we might call &quot;dating&quot; today. Jud sees her as often as he can. It would be a form of courting, with the intention to end in marriage.

One day Willella is not there, and Jud is told she is out riding (i.e., like another date) with a different man. This man, was a sheepman named Jackson Bird. Jud threatens to kill Jackson if he doesn&#039;t leave his girl alone.

Jackson tells Jud that he&#039;s not courting Willella, but trying to get her pancake recipe. He says it&#039;s a family recipe she won&#039;t give out, but he&#039;s still trying to get it. He then tells Judd that if he could only get that recipe, he&#039;d never see Willella again. Judd agrees to try to get the recipe from Willella.

However, Jackson IS really courting Willella and tells Emsley and she that Jud has an injury that sometimes causes him to go wild and rant about pancakes. Jud is completely fooled until he rides into Pimienta Crossing to find that Willella and Jackson have gotten married and are on their honeymoon.

That&#039;s the basic story. You can read it http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry... You may have been thrown off by certain expressions with which you are unfamiliar. I&#039;d recommend you read it again and see if it doesn&#039;t make sense. Though it&#039;s not my favorite O. Henry story, it&#039;s still good.