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...seventeen short stories in Pigeon Feathers are, for the most part, concerned with these people. The farm boy in the title story is typical--stunned by the new found consciousness of his own mortality, he finds relief and a certain reconciliation by methodically killing barn pigeons. So is the young American at the British drawing school of another story whose attempts to court a fellow student are as inorganic and stiff as the objects he paints in his still life...
...fired, pulled out the empty clips, reloaded and fired again, now stood speechless and dazed. Their steaming machine pistols lay on the pavement where they had dropped them. Four soldiers were sobbing, and the rest, said a spectator, looked "like boys who have been caught smoking behind the barn." In the hard-pressed morgue, the naked bodies were laid in rows, men and women intermingled. Lacking refrigeration, morgue attendants were limited to hosing down the corpses with cold water. In the middle of the night, the bodies were moved out to Algiers' four main cemeteries...
Whistle Down the Wind (Allied; Pathe-American). One evening on a farm in the north of England, a young girl (Hayley Mills) goes out to the barn to feed some kittens. As she reaches into their box a hairy face rises up behind it, the face of a man (Alan Bates) she has never seen before. "Who are you?" she asks in terror. The man, who is actually a killer on the lam, stares at her blearily a moment, then falls back into the straw, too tired to do anything but curse his luck. "Jesus Christ!" he groans...
...little girl gasps and runs back to tell her sister (Diane Holgate): "He's in our barn! He's come back!" Wonder fills the sister's eyes. "Asleep in the hay," she murmurs dreamily. Next morning, while the sound track tinkles a nursery-level arrangement of We Three Kings, the girls take "Him" some food-bread and wine, of course. And when their little brother (Alan Barnes) pops in, they swear him to secrecy: "Don't tell the grownups...
...suffered from cancer, and not long after a serious operation he was in a nearly fatal automobile accident. Though the first glimmerings of recognition had begun to come to him, his depression became so acute that he could scarcely paint. On July 21, 1948, he went to the barn behind his home near Sherman, Conn. A few hours later, friends found his body hanging from a beam...