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...there's "Saki". Anyone who hasn't read "Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...
...prove his point, the Vagabond begs only to let "Saki" speak for himself in "Toys of Peace" and "Beasts and Super-Beasts", two volumes of his short, short stories. A. A. Milne said of him: "I introduce you to "Saki", confident that ten minutes of his conversation will have given him the freedom of your house." The Vagabond heartily seconds...
...down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...
...eternal Saki from that bowl has pour...