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The Unicorn in the Garden

园子里的独角兽

James Thurber

1 Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a gold horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. 'There's a unicorn in the garden.' he said. 'Eating roses.' She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. 'The unicorn is a mythical beast,' she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly down stairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there: he was now browsing among the tulips. 'Here, unicorn,' said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. 'The unicorn,' he said, 'ate a lily.' His wife sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly. 'You are a booby,' she said, 'and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch.' The man, who had never liked the words 'booby' and 'booby-hatch,' and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. 'We'll see about that,' he said. He walked over to the door. 'He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead,' he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.

2 As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye. She telephoned the police and she telephoned a psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down in chairs and looked at her, with great interest. 'My husband,' she said, 'saw a unicorn this morning.' The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police. 'He told me it ate a lily,' she said. The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist. 'He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead,' she said. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife. They had a hard time subduing her, for she put up a terrific struggle, but they finally subdued her. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband came back into the house.

3 'Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?' asked the police. 'Of course not,' said the husband. 'The unicorn is a mythical beast.' 'That's all I wanted to know,' said the psychiatrist. 'Take her away. I'm sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jay bird.' So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and

shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.

4 Moral: Don't county your boobies until they are hatched.

译文

1 很久很久以前，一个阳光明媚的早晨，某甲正在餐室吃早饭，猛一抬头，眼睛刚离开他的煎鸡蛋，就看见外头有一头金角白色独角兽，正在不声不响地啃花园里的玫瑰花。他立即起身上楼，叫醒他在房里睡觉的老婆，告诉花园里有一头独角兽，正在啃玫瑰花。她睁开一只眼睛，态度很不友好，看着他。“世上哪有独角兽？独角兽不过是寓言传闻而已。”她说罢就转过身去，背对着他。他受了蹶，只好慢腾腾下楼，走进花园。独角兽还在那里，这次是吃的是郁金香。“来，独角兽。”他边说边拔一棵百合花喂它。它郑重其事地吃了下去。因为他的花园有只独角兽，他觉得好酷，又一次上楼，叫醒他的老婆。他说，“那独角兽吃了棵百合花。”她坐了起来，冷冷地看着他，说道，“笨蛋，看来我得送你上精神病医院。”他从不喜欢听“笨蛋”和“精神病院”，特别是在一个明媚的早晨，而且是一个花园里还有独角兽的明媚的早晨。他想了一会，道：“咱们走着瞧吧。”走到门口，他又回过头来说道，“在它的脑门中间儿，还有一只金黄色的角哩。”他回到花园，想再看看独角兽。不过这时独角兽已经不在了。于是，他就坐在玫瑰花中间，呼呼地睡着了。

2 某甲一出门，他老婆便匆匆穿衣，起床下地。她十分兴奋，眼睛里透着得意的神色。她给警察打了电话，又给心理学家打了电话。她请他们带一件捆精神病人的紧身衣，到她家来。警察和心理学家来

了，坐在椅子里。他们带着极大的兴趣，打量着她。她说：“我老公今早说他见过独角兽。”警察看了心理学家一眼。心理学家也看了警察一眼。她又说：“他还跟我说它吃了棵百合花。”心理学家又看了警察一眼。警察也又看了心理学家一眼。她进一步说：“他还说在它的脑门中间儿，还有一只金黄色的角哩。”精神心理学家郑重给警察发了个信号。警察腾地一下从椅子上跳起来，一把抓住她。她拼命挣扎。他俩费了半天劲，才最终把她制服。刚给她穿上紧身衣，某甲就进了门。

3 警察问道：“你告诉你老婆，说你见过独角兽吗？”某甲道：“当然没有。独角兽是寓言传闻嘛！”心理学家道：“这就是我们要知道的。[对警察说]把她带走！[对某甲说]先生，真不好意思，你老婆疯了，我们不得不抓她，上精神病院。”说完就带起她出去，她破口大骂，大声尖叫，他们把她关进了疯人院。某甲从此过得十分幸福。

4 寓意：鸡还未从蛋里孵出来就数数儿，为时过早。

READER AND PURPOSE

Ex. 1.

The essential elements of narrative are characters and action. Such thins as setting, symbols, and imagery may be made more, or less, important, but ultimately a story stands or falls on action and character. his important fact

is illustrated by Thurber's brief, but perhaps not-so-simple fable. Consider first his treatment of character. Deftly and quickly he creates the hero and the villain, but he does not hang signs around their necks; he renders his characters dramatically, that is, in terms of what they say and do. We must infer what kind of people these are; the author does not tell us explicitly.

1) The wife is plainly despicable. What does she do that makes her so? We can see it from what she says and does. First she is a lazy woman. When her husband had had his breakfast she was still asleep. Secondly, she does not

love her husband. When her husband told her that there was a unicorn in the garden, she opened one unfriendly eye and turned her back to him. When her husband told her again that the unicorn was eating a lily, she sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly. She even wanted to have him put in the booby-hatch. She telephoned the police and a psychiatrist to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. All she wanted to do was to shut him up in an institution.

2) Although the husband is the hero in the sense of being the "good guy," he is no Achilles. Thurber's husbands are not cast in the mold of the reek hero; they are mild little men -- patient, gentle, long-suffering. Do you think that Thurber intends us to like this husband?

We do not think that Thurber intends us to like this husband. This is stated in "Reader and Purpose": "Although the husband is the hero in the sense of being the 'good guy', he is no Achilles. Thurber's husbands are not cast in the mold of the Greek hero; they are mild little men-patient, gentle,

long-suffering". Nevertheless, the husband of this kind arouses our sympathy and pity.

3) Thurber's mild little men, however, often reveal another trait: they will be pushed just so far and then they turn upon their domineering wives and get even. At what point does this husband begin to turn?

When the husband told his wife again that the unicorn was eating a lily, she sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch." At this point the husband began to turn, which is clarified by his reply to her, "We'll see

about that."

Ex. 2.

1) Why do you suppose it is a unicorn that the man sees instead of, say, a pink elephant?

Pink elephants refer to various hallucinations arising especially from heavy drinking or use of narcotics. The man is neither drinking heavily nor using narcotics, therefore, a pink elephant is impossible. In fact, we can see that the man was having his scrambled eggs which had the white color of albumen and the yellow color of yolk which coincide with the colors of the unicorn - a white unicorn with a gold horn.

2) Are we supposed to accept the unicorn of the story as real?

We are not supposed to accept the unicorn of the story as real, since it is a mythical beast, and we also know that the story is a fable.

3) It is clear that the wife, the police, and the psychiatrist do not. But has Thurber given us any reason to doubt that the unicorn the man sees is a real unicorn in a real garden, really browsing among the tulips and eating a lily? (Read the opening sentence carerully if you are unsure about how to answer this question.)

Thurber has given us reasons to doubt that the unicorn the man sees is a real

unicorn in a real garden, really browsing among the tulips and eating a lily. The first sentence indicates that the unicorn is the man's vision or his imagination based on his scrambled eggs as illustrated above.

Ex. 3.

1) Assuming that he intends us to generalize from his couple, what is Thurber suggesting about marriage?

Thurber is suggesting that wife and husband should love each other, trust each other, help each other. Otherwise marriage will lose its significance and become a bitter nut.

2) He is poking fun at other things than lazy, vindictive wives. Do the psychiatrist and the police arouse our admiration?

No, the psychiatrist and the police do not arouse our admiration. They subdued the wife only by a misunderstanding.

3) Are they any less liter al-minded than the wife?

Yes, they are. They are as less literal-minded than the wife. The wife should have thought that when she told the police and the psychiatrist to hurry to her home to arrest her husband, they would think that she was crazy, since the unicorn was a mystical beast; the police and the psychiatrist should have thought that what the wife said was just what her husband had told her. The wife was subdued because of her own foolishness and the police and the psychiatrist subdued her because of their own selfwillfulness.

Ex. 4.

The "moral," with its pun upon hatched, suggests that sanity and insanity are less easy to distinguish than many people suppose. Has a rough sort of justice prevailed in this story- has the right booby been hatched?

Yes. The right booby hatched in this story is the wife. She was going to have her husband put in the booby-hatch, but the re verse happened and she herself was put there. At this point, we could say, that a rough sort of justice has prevailed in this story.

Ex. 5.

There is more to the theme of "The Unicorn in the Garden." however, than is contained in its closing moral. in your own words discuss everything you think this story implies about men and women and the values by which they live.

The readers may discuss it as freely as they can.

ORGANIZATION

Ex. 6.

1) In the first paragraph the dramatic focus is upon which character? Does the focus shift in the second paragraph?

In the first paragraph the dramatic focus is upon the man.

2) If you think that it does, has Thurber provided an adequate transition? Yes, it does. The focus shifts in the second paragraph to the woman. Thurber has provided an adequate transition at the beginning of the second paragraph, "As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could."

Ex. 7.

A story is composed of bits of action called episodes, which are dramatically rendered in scenes. A scene is a unit of ac tion defined by time, place, and characters; when any of these elements changes significantly a new scene begins. Thus in paragraph 1 the first scene depicts the man in the nook eating his breakfast and seeing the unicorn. When he goes upstairs to his wife's bedroom we have scene 2. This paragraph con sists of five such scenes; identify the remaining three. Make a similar scenic analysis of paragraph 2 and 3.

1) In the first paragraph when we see the man walk slowly downstairs and out into the garden we have the third scene. From "With a high heart..." to "the man goes upstairs and rouses his wife again", we have scene 4. With "Then he goes back to the garden... and goes to sleep", we have scene 5, the last scene of paragraph 1.

2) Paragraph 2 consists of five scenes:

Scene 1. As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could.

Scene 2. She telephoned the police and the psychiatrist... and bring a strait jacket.

Scene 3. When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down... Scene 4. They had a hard time subduing her...

Scene 5. Just as they ... the husband came into the house.

Paragraph 3 consists of 3 scenes:

Scene 1. The dialogue between the police and the husband.

Scene 2. So they took her away.

Scene 3. The husband lived happily ever after.

Ex. 8.

In a well-constructed story each scene must be informative; that is, it must relate something new about the characters, pre pare for future action, clarify the theme in some way, or do all of these. What new bits of information are conveyed by each scene in paragraph 1?

Paragraph 1, scene 1 tells of the husband's seeing a unicorn in the garden, and when he goes upstairs to tell his wife, scene 2 begins. Since his wife does not believe it to be true, he goes to the garden again and finds the unicorn still there, scene 3. In scene 4 he goes to his wife's bedroom again to tell her what he has seen is true. Seeing his wife's malignancy, he returns to

the garden to "watch the unicorn", this is scene

Ex. 9.

In many stories the action is of the special kind called plot. Briefly, a plot has these characteristics: (1) at least one character is working toward a specific goal; (2) this effort brings him into conflict with one or more of the other characters; (3) the conflict is ultimately resolved; (4) only episodes that bear upon either the goal or the conflict are included; and (5) all episodes are tied together in a tight chain of cause and effect. Show that the action of Thurber's story may properly be called a plot. In a well-made plot the action is brought to a logically satisfactory conclusion. Do you feel that such is the case here?

Yes, we do. This can be illustrated as follows:

1) The husband is working toward a specific goal - to get rid of his wife;

2) His effort brings him into conflict with his wife;

3) The conflict is ultimately resolved - his wife is subdued and shut up in an institution;

4) Every episode in each scene bears upon both the goal and conflict;

5) All episodes are tied together in a tight chain of cause and effect - The wife maltreats her husband (she is going to have him put in the booby-hatch), and the husband thinks of a way to get rid of her instead, which succeeds. Ex. 10.

1) Plots begin with what we call a datum-an initial event, often implying a question or problem. out of which the goal and the conflict develop. What is the datum in Thurber's tale?

The datum in this story is the husband's seeing a unicorn.

2) Even more important is the climax. This is the scene in which the conflict is finally resolved; in a cowboy movie, for instance, the climax is the

shoot-out between the white hat and the black. Which scene in Thurber's story constitutes the climax?

Scene 4 in paragraph 2 constitutes the climax:

"They had a hard time subduing her."

3) For one character or another the climax of a plot usually involves a reversal-the black hat, for example, expects to win, not to be shot down in the dust. What is the reversal in "The Unicorn in the Garden"?

The reversal is that at first the wife intends to have her husband put in the booby-hatch, but at last she herself is put there.

Ex. 11.

1) The plot generally carries an important part of the meaning of a story. Often in tragic drama, for instance, the plot demonstrates that the hero's destruction is the logically necessary consequence of a moral lapse; had Macbeth not murdered Duncan, he would not in turn have been killed by

Macduff. What meaning is conveyed by Thurber's plot?

If the wife had not intended to have her husband put in the booby-hatch, she would not have been shut up in an institution. Just as the proverb goes, "As you make your bed so you must lie on it".

2) There is an important difference, however, between a play like Macbeth and a fable. Macbeth presumably reflects the real world, however it may simplify that world; what happens to Macbeth is a sign of what will happen to similar men in real life. In fables and fairy tales, on the other hand, the point may be that the universe of the story does not reflect the world as we experience it. Do you think that such is the case in "The Unicorn in the Garden"?

Yes, we do. The story does not reflect the world as we experience it.

Ex. 12.

The final element in a plot is often called the denouement. It logically follows the climax, wrapping up any loose threads and bringing the story to a close. What is the denouement of Thurber's fable?

The denouement of Thurber's fable is in paragraph 3, as the last two scenes tell us, "So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after."

SENTENCES

Ex. 13.

A narrative writer must solve the problem of fitting the bits and pieces of his action into appropriate compositional units. In a novel such units would include groups of paragraphs, chapters, and even whole books. Thurber's units, however, are paragraphs and sentences. Study the sentence plan of the first paragraph and he able to discuss whether or not Thurber has used his sentences effectively to analyze the action.

In paragraph 1, we have twenty sentences. Since this paragraph mainly describes the hero, the husband, there are thirteen sentences whose subjects are "the man" or "he". In the sentences that describe the man's actions Thurber uses:

a) Restrictive attributive clauses. For example, the first sentence, "Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook..."

b) Periodic sentences. For example, "With a high heart, be cause there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went up stairs and roused his wife again." c) Non restrictive attributive clauses. For example, "The man, who had never liked the words "booby" and "booby-hatch", and who liked them even less, ..., thought for a moment."

d) Compound sentences. For example, "Then he went back...; but the unicorn had gone away."

e) Short and simple sentences. For example, "The unicorn ate it gravely";

"He walked over to the door."

f) Dialogue. Thurber uses the form of dialogue to analyze the action of the man and the wife.

Ex. 14.

1) The original sentence puts the adverb "coldly11 at the end of the sentence and there is a comma before it. Thus the key word "coldly" is made more conspicuous and emphatic. And when we read, we have a short pause at "looked at him", then we have "coldly". So the original sentence first gives us suspension, we do not know in what manner the wife looked at her husband until we finish the whole sentence. But the revision is too flat, lacking in colour. More over, the emphasis of the key word "coldly11 is lost.

2) In the original "as soon as" is a transitional phrase. With this transition, the focus shifts in the second paragraph. But the revision does not show the shift of the focus and spoils the time order.

3) In the original, these are two scenes. In the revision, two scenes are linked together without a full-stop. This goes against the elements of narrative. DICTION

Ex. 15.

unicorn - See note 2.

cropping - (by animals) biting tops of grass, plants, etc.

mythical - existing only in myth, imaginary, fictions

Ex. 16.

"Gloat" means a look with a feeling of triumphant or malicious satisfaction. In the story we know that she telephoned the police and a psychiatrist to request they put her husband in the booby-hatch. When she was thinking of her coming triumph, there was a gloat in her eye. The word "gloat" echoes the adverb "Coldly" in paragraph 1. "Gleam does not bear such subtle meaning. "Shining" echoes the adjective "sunny" in line 1, which means "bright with sunlight". Further more "shining" is a present participle and is more vivid than the adjective "bright", which means "giving out or reflecting light". "shining" also suggests the moving of the sun.

Ex. 17.

1) The words "unfriendly" and "coldly" establish the wife's reaction to her husband. The husband's answer "we'll see

about that" establishes the husband's reaction to his wife.

2) The words "white, gold, quietly, gravely" characterize the unicorn.

3) A "sunny morning" suggests and foretells the husband's victory over his wife.

Vocabular

nook: n. 1 a corner, esp. of a room 2 a small recess or secluded spot;

retreat

scramble: To cook (beaten eggs) until firm but with a soft consistency 煎蛋

crop v. tr. 1. a. To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass. b. To cut (hair, for example) very short. c. To clip (an animal's ears, for example). d. To trim (a photograph or picture, for example). 2. a. To harvest: crop salmon. b. To cause to grow or yield a crop.

tulip n. [植]郁金香, 郁金香花, 郁金香球茎，郁金额香属植物，山慈姑

browse: v. a. To nibble; crop. b. To graze on

mythical - existing only in myth, imaginary, fiction

booby A person regarded as stupid

strait-jacket n. 1. A long-sleeved jacketlike garment used to bind the arms

tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent patient or prisoner. 2. Something that restricts, hinders, or confines: the straitjacket of bureaucratic paperwork. v. tr. 1. To restrain, restrict, or hinder by or as if by confining in a straitjacket.

subdue To quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make tractable.

jay bird Any of various often crested birds of the genera Garrulus,

Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, and related genera within the family Corvidae, often having a loud, harsh call. Also Called jaybird.

hatch v. intr. 1. To emerge from or break out of an egg. v. tr. 1. To

produce (young) from an egg. 2. To cause (an egg or eggs) to produce young. 3. To devise or originate, especially in secret: hatch an assassination plot.

Unit 9 How to Grow Old 课文翻译

Unit 9 How to Grow Old Bertrand A. Russell 1. In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be, to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. A great-grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother, after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to women’s higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women. She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. She inquired the cause of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted fro m his two grandchildren. “Good gracious,” she exclaimed, “I have seventy-two grandchildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence!” “Madre snaturale,” he replied. But speaking as one of the seventy-two, I prefer her recipe. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep, so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to 3 a.m. in reading popular science. I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old. This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young. If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the probable brevity of your future. 2. As regards health, I have nothing useful to say since I have little experience of illness. I eat and drink whatever I like, and sleep when I cannot keep awake. I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome. 3. Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’s thoughts must be directed to

Thechaser追逐者中英对照

The Chaser John Collier Alan Auste n, as n ervous as a kitte n, went up certa in dark and creaky stairs in the n eighborhood of Pell Street , and peered about for a long time on the dim landing before he found the n ame he wan ted writte n obscurely on one of the doors. He pushed ope n this door, as he had bee n told to do, and found himself in a tiny room, which contained no furn iture but a pla in kitche n table, a rock in g-chair, and an ordinary chair. On one of the dirty buff-colored walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a doze n bottles and jars. An old man sat in the rock in g-chair, read ing a n ewspaper. Ala n, without a word, handed him the card he had been given. 人Sit down, Mr. Austen, said the old man very politely. 人I am glad to make your acqua intance. 人Is it true, asked Alan, 人that you have a certain mixture that has ! er ! quite extraordinary effects? 人My dear sir, replied the old man, 人my stock in trade is not very large ! I don …t deal in laxatives and teething mixtures ! but such as it is, it is varied. I think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described as ordin ary. 人Well, the fact is ! began Alan. 人Here, for example, interrupted the old man, reaching for a bottle from the shelf. 人Here is a liquid as colorless as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy. 人Do you mean it is a poison? cried Alan, very much horrified. 人Call it a glove-cleaner if you like, said the old man indifferently. 人Maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried. One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes. 人I want nothing of that sort, said Alan. 人Probably it is just as well, said the old man. 人Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which is sufficient, I ask five thousa nd dollars. Never less. Not a penny less. 人I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive, said Alan apprehe nsively. 人Oh dear, no, said the old man. 人It would be no good charg ing that sort of price for a love poti on, for example. Young people who n eed a love poti on very seldom have five thousa nd dollars. Otherwise they would not n eed a love poti on. 人I am glad to hear that, said Alan. 人I look at it like this, said the old man. 人Please a customer with one article, and he will come back whe n he n eeds another. Even if it is more costly. He will save up for it, if n ecessary. 人So, said Alan, 人you really do sell love potions? 人If I did not sell love potions, said the old man, reaching for another bottle, 人I should not have mentioned the other matter to you. It is only whe n one is in a positi on to oblige that one can afford to be so con fide ntial. 人And these potions, said Alan. 人They are not just ! just ! er ! 人Oh, no, said the old man. 人Their effects are permanent, and exte nd far bey ond casual impulse. But they in clude it. Boun tifully, in siste ntly. Everlast in gly. 人Dear me! said Alan, attempting a look of scientific detachme nt. "How very in teresti ng! 人But consider the spiritual side, said the old man.

Unit7TheChaser课文翻译综合教程三

Unit 7 The Chaser John Henry Collier 1 Alan Austen, as nervous as a kitten, went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and peered about for a long time on the dim hallway before he found the name he wanted written obscurely on one of the doors. 2 He pushed open this door, as he had been told to do, and found himself in a tiny room, which contained no furniture but a plain kitchen table, a rocking-chair, and an ordinary chair. On one of the dirty buff-coloured walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a dozen bottles and jars. 3 An old man sat in the rocking-chair, reading a newspaper. Alan, without a word, handed him the card he had been given. “Sit down, Mr. Austen,” said the old man very politely. “I am glad to make your acquaintance.” 4 “Is it true,” asked Alan, “that you have a certain mixture that has … er … quite extraordinary effects?” 5 “My dear sir,” replied the old man, “my sto ck in trade is not very large — I don’t deal in laxatives and teething mixtures —but such as it is, it is varied. I think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described as ordinary.” 6 “Well, the fact is …” began Alan. 7 “Here, for example,” interrupted the old man, reaching for a bottle from the shelf. “Here is a liquid as colourless as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy.” 8 “Do you mean it is a poison?” cried Alan, very much horrified. 9 “Call it a glove-cleaner if you like,” said the old man indifferently. “Maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried. One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes.” 10 “I want nothing of that sort,” said Alan. 11 “Probably it is just as well,” said the old man. “Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which is sufficient, I ask five thousand dollars. Never less. Not a penny less.” 12 “I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive,” said Alan apprehensively.

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Unit 7 The Chaser John Henry Collier 1 Alan Austen, as nervous as a kitten, went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and peered about for a long time on the dim hallway before he found the name he wanted written obscurely on one of the doors. 2 He pushed open this door, as he had been told to do, and found himself in a tiny room, which contained no furniture but a plain kitchen table, a rocking-chair, and an ordinary chair. On one of the dirty buff-coloured walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a dozen bottles and jars. 3 An old man sat in the rocking-chair, reading a newspaper. Alan, without a word, handed him the card he had been given. “Sit down, Mr. Austen,” said the old man very politely. “I am glad to make your acquaintance.” 4 “Is it true,” asked Alan, “that you have a certain mixture that has … er … quite extraordinary effects?” 5 “My dear sir,” replied the old man, “my stock in trade is not very large —I don’t deal in laxatives and teething mixtures — but such as it is, it is varied. I think nothing I sell has effects which could be p recisely described as ordinary.” 6 “Well, the fact is …” began Alan. 7 “Here, for example,” interrupted the old man, reaching for a bottle from the shelf. “Here is a liquid as colourless as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy.” 8 “Do you mean it is a poison?” cried Alan, very much horrified. 9 “Call it a glove-cleaner if you like,” said the old man indifferently. “Maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried. One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes.” 10 “I want nothing of that sort,” said Alan. 11 “Probably it is just as well,” said the old man. “Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which is sufficient, I ask five thousand dollars. Never less. Not a penny less.” 12 “I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive,” said Alan apprehensively.

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