The Story of Gombi

The Story of Gombi

Patrick Spence, a real, old Anglo-Irish gentleman, who would have cut your throat had you called him a liar, died not long ago at the age of eighty-six and had a bottle of port with his dinner the day before he took off. Those were Cassidy the old butlers words. Cassidy said the master was as sound as a bell and walking along by the rhododendron bushes to have a look at the new wing they were adding to the stables when he sprang into the air, cried, Got me by glory! and fell flat, just as a buck falls when a bullet takes it through the heart. A fit end for a big-game hunter you will say. A fit, anyhow, the doctors said. The ancestral home of the Spences, The Grange, Scoresby, Lincolnshire, stands half a mile from the road. You reach it by an avenue of chestnuts, and in Patricks time when the door opened you found yourself in a hall hung with trophies of the chase; the whole house was, in fact, a museum. Never in any man had the passion for collection burned more acutely than in the owner of The Grange, or shown itself in a more extravagant fashion. Here you found lamps upheld by pythons, door handles cut from rhinoceros horn, tables topped with hippopotamus hide, skins and masks everywhere of everything from black buffalo to Burchells zebra. In the long corridors where the hartebeest heads faced the elands and Grants gazelle grinned at Bohms zebra, black bears upheld the electric standardsblack bears and apes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67506
Author: Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
Release Date: Feb 26, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Street & Smith Corporation
Publication Date: 1922
Publisher Country: United States