Tooth and Claw – Short Stories

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Саки. Tooth and Claw – Short Stories

TOOTH AND CLAW. SHORT STORIES

Sredni Vashtar

The Story-Teller

Gabriel-Ernest

Tobermory

The She-Wolf

GLOSSARY

Tooth and Claw. SHORT STORIES. ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES. Before Reading

ACTIVITIES. While Reading

ACTIVITIES. After Reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Conradin was ten years old and was often ill.

‘The boy is not strong,’ said the doctor. ‘He will not live much longer.’ But the doctor did not know about Conradin’s imagination. In Conradin’s lonely, loveless world, his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive.

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‘The boy is not strong,’ said the doctor. ‘He will not live much longer.’ But the doctor did not know about Conradin’s imagination. In Conradin’s lonely, loveless world, his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive.

Conradin’s parents were dead and he lived with his aunt. The aunt did not like Conradin and was often unkind to him. Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing. Mostly he kept out of her way. She had no place in his world. His real, everyday life in his aunt’s colourless, comfortless house was narrow and uninteresting. But inside his small, dark head exciting and violent thoughts ran wild. In the bright world of his imagination Conradin was strong and brave. It was a wonderful world, and the aunt was locked out of it.

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