Beasts and SuperBeasts by H. H. Munro Paperback Book 9781595406385

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks Visit us online at www1stWorldLibraryORG LEONARD BILSITER was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting and who have sought compensation in an quotunseen worldquot of their own experience or imagination or invention Children do that sort of thing successfully but children are content to convince themselves and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people Leonard Bilsiters beliefs were for quotthe fewquot that is to say anyone who would listen to him His dabblings in the unseen might not have carried him beyond the customary platitudes of the drawingroom visionary if accident had not reinforced his stockintrade of mystical lore In company with a friend who was interested in a Ural mining concern he had made a trip across Eastern Europe at a moment when the great Russian railway strike was developing from a threat to a reality its outbreak caught him on the return journey somewhere on the further side of Perm and it was while waiting for a couple of days at a wayside station in a state of suspended locomotion that he made the acquaintance of a dealer in harness and metalware who profitably whiled away the tedium of the long halt by initiating his English travelling companion in a fragmentary system of folklore that he had picked up from TransBaikal traders and natives