Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories

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CONTENTS THE DUMB MAN I WANT TO KNOW WHY SEEDS THE OTHER WOMAN

THE DUMB MAN

I WANT TO KNOW WHY

SEEDS

THE OTHER WOMAN

THE EGG

UNLIGHTED LAMPS

SENILITY

THE MAN IN THE BROWN COAT

BROTHERS

THE DOOR OF THE TRAP

THE NEW ENGLANDER

WAR

MOTHERHOOD

Chapter 3 ENGLAND'S PERIL

Chapter 4 WHAT ENGLAND THOUGHT OF IT

Chapter 5 THE GERMANS REACH LONDON

Chapter 6 THE BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON

Chapter 7 A CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS

Part Two

Chapter 1 IN THE BOY SCOUTS' CAMP

Chapter 2 AN IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENT

Chapter 3 A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE SITUATION

Chapter 4 CLARENCE HEARS IMPORTANT NEWS

Chapter 5 SEEDS OF DISCORD

Chapter 6 THE BOMB-SHELL

Chapter 7 THE BIRD

Chapter 8 THE MEETING AT THE SCOTCH STORES

Chapter 9 THE GREAT BATTLE

Chapter 10 THE TRIUMPH OF ENGLAND

Chapter 11 CLARENCE THE LAST PHASE

Title: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Edition: 10

Language: English

This eBook was produced by Michelle Shephard, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

The Triumph Of The Egg

                            A Book Of Impressions
                             From American Life
                             In Tales And Poems

                                     By
                             Sherwood Anderson

                                 In Clay By
                              Tennessee Mitchell

                         In the fields
                         Seeds on the air floating.
                         In the towns
                         Black smoke for a shroud.
                         In my breast
                         Understanding awake.
                         Mid American Chants.

                                    To
                          Robert And John Anderson

Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind.
It is cold outside and they sit waiting.
I look out at a window.

The tales have cold hands,
Their hands are freezing.

A short thickly-built tale arises and threshes his arms about.
His nose is red and he has two gold teeth.

There is an old female tale sitting hunched up in a cloak.

Many tales come to sit for a few moments on the doorstep and then go away. It is too cold for them outside. The street before the door of the house of my mind is filled with tales. They murmur and cry out, they are dying of cold and hunger.

I am a helpless man—my hands tremble.
I should be sitting on a bench like a tailor.
I should be weaving warm cloth out of the threads of thought.
The tales should be clothed.
They are freezing on the doorstep of the house of my mind.

I am a helpless man—my hands tremble.
I feel in the darkness but cannot find the doorknob.
I look out at a window.
Many tales are dying in the street before the house of my mind.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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