About. Henry (1862-1910) pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, an outstanding American novelist, famous for brilliant humorous stories During his short creative life, he wrote about 280 stories, not counting feuilletons and various small works. «Do you know that there is an hour of dogs? When the clear contours of the Big City begin to blur, smeared with gray fingers twilight, there comes an hour reserved for one of the saddest spectacles of city life . From the tops and cliffs of stone communities of New York, whole hordes of inhabitants of city caves, which were once people, slide down. All of them still retain the ability to move on two limbs and have not lost the human appearance and the gift of speech, but you will immediately notice that in their progressive movement they weave in the tail of animals. Each of these creatures walks after the dog, being connected with it by an artificial connection.