Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile and sea-serpents engulf every passing ship and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.

But the strange event which I shall here relate came alone, unsupported, without companions into a hostile world and for that very reason claimed little of the general attention of mankind. For the sudden changing of Mrs. Tebrick into a vixen is an established fact which we may attempt to account for as we will. Certainly it is in the explanation of the fact and the reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable and with no possibility of collusion between them. . . .

Author: David Garnett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781598188141
Audience: 01 - 12

About the Author
Garnett, David: - "David Garnett (1892 - 1981) was a British writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname Bunny, by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into Fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel Aspects of Love (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was based."