IT and Other Stories
IT and Other Stories
It -- Two Business Women -- The Trap -- Sapphira -- The Bride's Dead -- Holding Hands -- The Claws of The Tiger -- Growing Up -- The Battle of Aiken -- An Idyl of Pelham Bay Park -- Back There in the Grass -- Asabri
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d It finished--just as I tripped on a snake and fell--with a round bar of high C sound, that lasted a good minute (or until I was a quarter of a mile beyond where I had fallen), and was the color of butter, and could have been cut with a knife. And It stopped short--biff--just as if It had been chopped off.
That was the end of my village hunting. Let the prisoner of Prana Beach drown in his hole when the rains come, let his treasure remain unlifted till Gabriel blows his trumpet; but let yours truly bask in the shade of the beach ebony, hidden from view, and fortified by dynamite--until the satinwood shallop should see fit to return and take him off.
Except for a queer dream (queer because of the time and place, and because there seemed absolutely nothing to suggest it to the mind asleep), I put in six hours' solid sleep. In my dream I was in Lombardy in a dark loft where there were pears laid out to ripen; and we were frightened and had to keep creepy-mouse still--because the father had come ho
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