The Toys of Peace and Other Stories
by
H. H. Munro (Saki)
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The Toys of Peace and Other Stories
The Toys Of Peace.............................................................................................................. 4
Louise.................................................................................................................................. 9
Tea..................................................................................................................................... 13
The Disappearance Of Crispina Umberleigh.................................................................... 16
The Wolves Of Cernogratz ............................................................................................... 20
Louis ................................................................................................................................. 24
The Guests ........................................................................................................................ 28
The Penance ...................................................................................................................... 31
The Phantom Luncheon .................................................................................................... 36
A Bread And Butter Miss ................................................................................................. 40
Bertie's Christmas Eve ...................................................................................................... 45
Forewarned ....................................................................................................................... 50
The Interlopers .................................................................................................................. 55
Quail Seed......................................................................................................................... 60
Canossa ............................................................................................................................. 65
The Threat......................................................................................................................... 69
Excepting Mrs. Pentherby................................................................................................. 73
Mark.................................................................................................................................. 77
The Hedgehog................................................................................................................... 81
The Mappined Life ........................................................................................................... 86
Fate.................................................................................................................................... 89
The Bull ............................................................................................................................ 93
Morlvera............................................................................................................................ 96
Shock Tatics.................................................................................................................... 100
The Seven Cream Jugs.................................................................................................... 105
The Occasional Garden................................................................................................... 110
The Sheep........................................................................................................................ 113
The Oversight.................................................................................................................. 117
Hyacinth.......................................................................................................................... 121
The Image Of The Lost Soul .......................................................................................... 126
The Purple Of The Balkan Kings.................................................................................... 128
The Cupboard Of The Yesterdays .................................................................................. 130
For The Duration Of The War ........................................................................................ 133
The Toys Of Peace
'Harvey,' said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, 'just read this about children's toys, please; it exactly carries out some of our ideas about influence and upbringing.'
'In the view of the National Peace Council,' ran the extract, 'there are grave objections to presenting our boys with regiments of fighting men, batteries of guns, and squadrons of 'Dreadnoughts.' Boys, the Council admits, naturally love fighting and all the panoply of war . . . but that is no reason for encouraging, and perhaps giving permanent form to, their primitive instincts. At the Children's Welfare Exhibition, which opens at Olympia in three weeks' time, the Peace Council will make an alternative suggestion to parents in the shape of an exhibition of 'peace toys.' In front of a specially-painted representation of the Peace Palace at The Hague will be grouped, not miniature soldiers but miniature civilians, not guns but ploughs and the tools of industry . . . It is hoped that manufacturers may take a hint from the exhibit, which will bear fruit in the toy shops.'
