The Complete Short Stories of SakiHalcyon house, 1939 - 718 pages |
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Page 303
... keep to your room and not add to the confusion , but she thought it would be so kind of you if you would take in Hartlepool's Wonder , the gamecock , you know , for the night . You see , there are eight other gamecocks , and they fight ...
... keep to your room and not add to the confusion , but she thought it would be so kind of you if you would take in Hartlepool's Wonder , the gamecock , you know , for the night . You see , there are eight other gamecocks , and they fight ...
Page 336
... keep to our right sexes . I kept getting up in the middle of a meal and throwing out food to the birds ; you see , the chief thing that one remembers of St. Francis is that he was fond of the birds . Every one was so stupid about it ...
... keep to our right sexes . I kept getting up in the middle of a meal and throwing out food to the birds ; you see , the chief thing that one remembers of St. Francis is that he was fond of the birds . Every one was so stupid about it ...
Page 568
... keep giraffes in . You see , if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden : ' You can't have wapiti and ...
... keep giraffes in . You see , if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden : ' You can't have wapiti and ...
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Reginald on Christmas Presents | 6 |
Reginalds Peace Poem | 13 |
Reginald on HouseParties | 20 |
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