Seeing Things at Night

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Heywood Hale Broun. Seeing Things at Night

Introduction

The Fifty-first Dragon

How To Be a Lion Tamer

H. G. Wells of England

Promises and Contracts and Clocks

Alcoholic Liquors

Some of My Best Friends Are Yale Men

Bacillus and Circumstance

Death Says It Isn't So

The Library of a Lover

A Bolt from the Blue

Inasmuch

H. 3rd – The Review of a Continuous Performance

Southpaws

Michael

Buying a Farm

Romance and Reticence

A Robe for the King

Turning Thirty

Margaret Fuller

Holding a Baby

Red Magic

The Last Trump

Spanking Manners

Park Row and Fleet Street

Merrick's Women

Just Around the Corner

Reform Through Reading

Shush!

A Test for Critics

Gray Gods and Green Goddesses

The Cosmic "Kid"

A Jung Man's Fancy

Deburau

A Reviewer's Notebook

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Of all the pupils at the knight school Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy was among the least promising. He was tall and sturdy, but his instructors soon discovered that he lacked spirit. He would hide in the woods when the jousting class was called, although his companions and members of the faculty sought to appeal to his better nature by shouting to him to come out and break his neck like a man. Even when they told him that the lances were padded, the horses no more than ponies and the field unusually soft for late autumn, Gawaine refused to grow enthusiastic. The Headmaster and the Assistant Professor of Pleasaunce were discussing the case one spring afternoon and the Assistant Professor could see no remedy but expulsion.

"No," said the Headmaster, as he looked out at the purple hills which ringed the school, "I think I'll train him to slay dragons."

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"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.

"And if I don't surrender?"

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