One character in this work has an acute toothache for three days, which the protagonist celebrates by offering stolen nutmeg to the title figure.
One character in this work has an acute toothache for three days, which the protagonist celebrates by offering stolen nutmeg to the title figure. The protagonist compares his cousin's religious services to alien worship in the House of Rimmon and is convinced that his Houdan hen is a dashing Anabaptist. That cousin bars the protagonist's entry into a tool-shed and herself tries to discard a figure whose "thoughts were red thoughts, and his teeth were white," and  whose "enemies brought him peace, but he brought them death." The protagonist relishes buttered toast as the news of Mrs. DeRopp's death is broken to him. FTP, identify this story in which Conradin worships the titular polecat-ferret, a work written by Saki.
One character in this work has an acute toothache for three days, which the protagonist celebrates by offering stolen nutmeg to the title figure.
"{Sredni Vashtar}"