The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
Here are some of the secrets of taxidermy. They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation. He told me them in the time between the first glass of whisky and the fourth, when a man is no longer cautious and yet not drunk. We sat in his den together; his library it was, his sitting and his eating-room�separated by a bead curtain, so far as the sense of sight went, from the noisome den where he plied his trade.
He sat on a deck chair, and when he was not tapping refractory bits of coal with them, he kept his feet�on which he wore, after the manner of sandals, the holy relics of a pair of carpet slippers�out of the way upon the mantel-piece, among the glass eyes. And his trousers, by-the-by�though they have nothing to do with his triumphs�were a most horrible yellow plaid, such as they made when our fathers wore side-whiskers and there were crinolines in the land. Further, his hair was black, his face rosy, and his eye a fiery brown; and his coat was chiefly of grease upon a basis of velveteen.
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He sat on a deck chair, and when he was not tapping refractory bits of coal with them, he kept his feet�on which he wore, after the manner of sandals, the holy relics of a pair of carpet slippers�out of the way upon the mantel-piece, among the glass eyes. And his trousers, by-the-by�though they have nothing to do with his triumphs�were a most horrible yellow plaid, such as they made when our fathers wore side-whiskers and there were crinolines in the land. Further, his hair was black, his face rosy, and his eye a fiery brown; and his coat was chiefly of grease upon a basis of velveteen.
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
Here are some of the secrets of taxidermy. They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation. He told me them in the time between the first glass of whisky and the fourth, when a man is no longer cautious and yet not drunk. We sat in his den together; his library it was, his sitting and his eating-room�separated by a bead curtain, so far as the sense of sight went, from the noisome den where he plied his trade.
He sat on a deck chair, and when he was not tapping refractory bits of coal with them, he kept his feet�on which he wore, after the manner of sandals, the holy relics of a pair of carpet slippers�out of the way upon the mantel-piece, among the glass eyes. And his trousers, by-the-by�though they have nothing to do with his triumphs�were a most horrible yellow plaid, such as they made when our fathers wore side-whiskers and there were crinolines in the land. Further, his hair was black, his face rosy, and his eye a fiery brown; and his coat was chiefly of grease upon a basis of velveteen.
He sat on a deck chair, and when he was not tapping refractory bits of coal with them, he kept his feet�on which he wore, after the manner of sandals, the holy relics of a pair of carpet slippers�out of the way upon the mantel-piece, among the glass eyes. And his trousers, by-the-by�though they have nothing to do with his triumphs�were a most horrible yellow plaid, such as they made when our fathers wore side-whiskers and there were crinolines in the land. Further, his hair was black, his face rosy, and his eye a fiery brown; and his coat was chiefly of grease upon a basis of velveteen.
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| BN ID: | 2940149567843 |
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| Publisher: | Starling and Black |
| Publication date: | 03/20/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 8 KB |
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