There Are Now Several Writers On Animals Who Are Not Exactly
Naturalists, Nor Yet Mere Fictionists, But Who, To A Considerable
Knowledge Of Animal Psychology And Extraordinary Sympathy With All
Wildness, Unite An Imaginative Insight Which Reveals To Them Much Of
The Inner, The Mind Life Of Brutes.
No doubt the greatest of these is
Charles Roberts, the Canadian, and I only wish it had been he who had
discovered the old gorilla skull above the stable door, and that the
incident had fired the creative brain which gave us Red Fox and
many another wonderful biography.
Now here is an odd coincidence. After writing the skull story it came
into my head to relate it to a lady I was dining with, and I also told
her of my intention of putting it in this book of Little Things. She
said it was funny that she too had a story of a skull which she had
thought of telling in her volume of Little Things; but no, she would
not venture to do so, although it was a better story than mine.
She was good enough to let me hear it, and as it is not to appear
elsewhere I can't resist the temptation of bringing it in here.
On her return to Europe after travelling and residing for some years in
the Far East, she established herself in Paris and proceeded to
decorate her apartment with some of the wonderful rich and rare objects
she had collected in outlandish parts.
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