The Black Poodle, and Other Tales

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PREFACE

THE BLACK POODLE

THE STORY OF A SUGAR PRINCE

THE RETURN OF AGAMEMNON

THE WRAITH OF BARNJUM.1

A TOY TRAGEDY

AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT

THE SIREN

THE CURSE OF THE CATAFALQUES

A FAREWELL APPEARANCE

ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE

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I have set myself the task of relating in the course of this story, without suppressing or altering a single detail, the most painful and humiliating episode in my life.

I do this, not because it will give me the least pleasure, but simply because it affords me an opportunity of extenuating myself which has hitherto been wholly denied to me.

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'Oh, he's not exactly my dog, you see,' I said; 'he belongs to a friend of mine!'

He gave me a quick furtive glance. 'Then maybe you're mistook about him,' he said: 'and I can't run no risks. I was a goin' down in the country this 'ere werry evenin' to see a party as lives at Wistaria Willa, – he's been a hadwertisin' about a black poodle, he has!'

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