O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, was American author of hundreds of short stories. "A Comedy in Rubber' is the satirical story about curiosity and the rubberers in a big city. As author say, "New York is the Caoutchouc City. There are many, of course, who go their ways, making money, without turning to the right or the left, but there is a tribe abroad wonderfully composed, like the Martians, solely of eyes and means of locomotion". One day, after sudden meeting near the road accident place (a man had been run over by a brewery wagon), two rubbers named William Pry and Violet Seymour, who hurried up there to stare at, once seen each other fell in love. So their love story has started Read "A Comedy in Rubber" and enjoy O. Henry's satirical masterpiece!