Название: Beasts and Super-Beasts
Автор: Saki
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664108753
isbn:
Saki
Beasts and Super-Beasts
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664108753
Table of Contents
THE SCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHOD
CLOVIS ON PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
THE PHILANTHROPIST AND THE HAPPY CAT
AUTHOR’S NOTE
“The Open Window,” “The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” and “Clovis on Parental Responsibilities,” originally appeared in the Westminster Gazette, “The Elk” in the Bystander, and the remaining stories in the Morning Post. To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint them.
H. H. M.
THE SHE-WOLF
Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an “unseen world” of their own experience or imagination—or invention. Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people. Leonard Bilsiter’s beliefs were for “the few,” that is to say, anyone who would listen to him.
His dabblings in the unseen might not have carried him beyond the customary platitudes of the drawing-room visionary if accident had not reinforced his stock-in-trade of mystical lore. In company with a friend, who was interested in a Ural mining concern, he had made a trip across Eastern Europe at a moment when СКАЧАТЬ