FOUR SHORT STORIES

Title: Four Short Stories

Author: Margery Morris

Publishers: Collins English Library

Summary:

1rst Story (Death and Money): There were three young men in a hotel and a kid told them that there was a

dead man outside the hotel. The barman said that “The Death took all the lives”. One of the young men asked where the Death was to kill it. The barman told them that the Death lived under the tree on the mountain. Under the tree there was only money. Two of those men wanted the money for them and they decided to kill the other man. The other man decided to kill the other two to get the money. At night they killed each other. It’s true the Death was under the tree.

 2nd Story (Tobermory the Cat): One August afternoon Lady Blemley was in her sitting room with her friends. One of them, Mr Appin told them that he could teach English to her cat, Tobermory. Tobermory came to the room and he began to talk. All of them began to ask to Tobermory a lot of questions about his family. Tobermory told them a lot of secrets about his family. Lady Blemley threw Tobermory out of home and he didn’t come again.

3rd Story (The Monkey´s Foot): Mr and Mrs White lived in a small house with their son, Herbert. They 

wanted to buy a house near the town, but they hadn’t money. One day an old friend went to their house for dinner. He had a Monkey’s Foot, an object that granted wishes. The old friend gave them the Monkey´s Foot. They wished money. The next day Herbert didn’t come to the house, he worked in a factory. A man came to his house and said to them that their son was dead and he gave them money on the part of the factory. They threw the monkey’s foot through the window.

4th Story (You Can’t Have Everything You Want): Gopal lived in a small house near the river, with his wife, Nataki. They were very poor. Nataki wanted to live in a big house. One day Gopal caught a magic fish and the fish told him that if he returned it to the river, it would give him a wish. When Gopal arrived at his house, Nataki was very happy because the house was very big. Gopal told Nataki all that had happened. Nataki told him a lot of wishes and all days Gopal told the fish a wish of Nataki and it made them real. One day Nataki wanted to be the Queen, and Gopal told the wish to the fish. The fish told them that it would never come back again and that you can’t have everything that you want. When Gopal returned to his house all the things that he had asked for disappeared. Nataki was very angry but Gopal was happy and he continued his poor life.    

Opinion: I think that the book is very interesting and very exciting.