Name: A Sheaf
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Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 978-1331482239

A Sheaf

By John Galsworthy 17 Sep, 2019

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Excerpt......We had left my rooms, and were walking briskly down the street towards the river, when my friend stopped before the window of a small shop and said: “Gold-fish!” I looked at him very doubtfully; one had known him so long that one never looked at him in any other way. “Can you imagine,” he went on, “how any sane person can find pleasure in the sight of those swift things swimming for ever and ever in a bowl about twice the length of their own tails?” “No,” I said, “I cannot—though, of course, they’re very pretty.” “That is, no doubt, the reason why they are kept in misery.” Again I looked at him; there is nothing in the world I distrust so much as irony. “People don’t think about these things,” I said. “You are right,” he answered, “they do not. Let me give you some evidence of that. . . . I was travelling last spring in a far country, and made an expedition to a certain woodland spot. Outside the little forest inn I noticed a ring of people and dogs gathered round a gray animal rather larger than a cat. It had a sharp-nosed head too small for its body, and bright black eyes, and was moving restlessly round and round a pole to which it was tethered by a chain. If a dog came near, it hunched its bushy back and made a rush at him. Except for that it seemed a shy-souled, timid little thing. In fact, by its eyes, and the way it shrank into itself, you could tell it was scared of everything around. Less

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