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Walked Around the Horses, by Henry Beam Piper
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Title: He Walked Around the Horses
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Illustrator: Cartier
Release Date: July 11, 2006 [EBook #18807]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES
BY H. BEAM PIPER
Illustrated by Cartier
This tale is based on an authenticated, documented fact. A man vanished--right out of this world. And where he went--
In November 1809, an Englishman named Benjamin Bathurst vanished, inexplicably and utterly.
He was en route to Hamburg from Vienna, where he had been serving as his government's envoy to the court of what Napoleon had left of the Austrian Empire. At an inn in Perleburg, in Prussia, while examining a change of horses for his coa