A Horse and Two Goats
1970)
R. K. Narayan
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wn asthe Big Howse. The eee habs, date in Tour sees, wete generally af
ota. sa, mod an eer unspecified material, Ms was the Ls house in
the fourth strcet. beyond which seished the feds In his psperoms days Mot had
oe ck of Fy ns and sald fon every moming diving the Nock
around érook at the end of &
stent she could pve him in onder tobe hepin the third sreet.
He satan an upturned packing case hslow the platform of the shop. The shopman
the poxtman’s wife who hd eloped tothe sy some months before
“Phe shopman fer most pleased to ear the worst ofthe postman, who Yad cheated
him, Being an itnerant post, Be ftuned ome 10 Ketan only once inten days and
payment later. Some days the sopman was i 3 good mood and gave in
his erp sien ad hack Mun for daring 10 ask
un sont he woul
credit This war such day. and Mun cad not progress beyond two tem sted
br cena component The shopian was aso displaying remarkable mem Tor od
fact and figures an took out an oblong ledger 1 support his observations. Muni Fel
ipeled to rse and flee. But hiv soreypec het i his seat and made im sen
Have you a daughter” sneered the shopman, “And she is sending you noney'For