Beasts and Super-Beasts. Saki

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664108753

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       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       THE SHE-WOLF

       LAURA

       THE BOAR-PIG

       THE BROGUE

       THE HEN

       THE OPEN WINDOW

       THE TREASURE SHIP

       THE COBWEB

       THE LULL

       THE UNKINDEST BLOW

       THE ROMANCERS

       THE SCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHOD

       THE SEVENTH PULLET

       THE BLIND SPOT

       DUSK

       A TOUCH OF REALISM

       COUSIN TERESA

       THE YARKAND MANNER

       THE BYZANTINE OMELETTE

       THE FEAST OF NEMESIS

       THE DREAMER

       THE QUINCE TREE

       THE FORBIDDEN BUZZARDS

       THE STAKE

       CLOVIS ON PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

       A HOLIDAY TASK

       THE STALLED OX

       THE STORY-TELLER

       A DEFENSIVE DIAMOND

       THE ELK

       “DOWN PENS”

       THE NAME-DAY

       THE LUMBER ROOM

       FUR

       THE PHILANTHROPIST AND THE HAPPY CAT

       ON APPROVAL

AUTHOR’S NOTE

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      “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

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      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