The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

I can tell you now that this was my first meeting of Samir, who called himself the Seller of Dreams. But I came to know him as an unserious man, a liar, and a thief. That is why I killed him.

'When I wos first pitched neck and crop into the world, to play at leap-frog with its troubles,'

But, as the drought burned relentlessly on, in the country districts an ever-increasing number of people succumbed to the vice of fairy fruit-eating . . . with tragic results to themselves, for though the fruit was very grateful to their parched throats, its spiritual effects were most alarming, and every day fresh rumours reached Lud-in-the-Mist (