Innocent Birds (2011)
“TUCKER IS ASTONISHED Chapter xx MR. TUCKER IS ASTONISHED MR. THOMAS TUCKER liked frosty mornings. A frosty morning made him wish to play like a kitten; and he would first admire the frost flowers upon his window and then open it wide so that he could lean out comfortably to look at the white grass as though the frost had painted it, as a surprise to please every one, and him most of all. December having come and a frosty morning, Mr. Tucker leaned out so far from his window, in order to breathe the cool freshness, that he nearly overbalanced. Regarding this nearness to a fall as a joke, that entertained him almost as much as the putting on of his surplice always did, Mr. Tucker chuckled, dipped his body into a cold bath, and dried himself with a rough towel.
Without his clothes Mr. Tucker looked like the figure of a fat little god in an Indian temple, but as he never saw himself in any other version except as merely ‘Old Tucker,’ he never cared what he looked like.
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