Monday or Tuesday and Other Short Stories (The Original Unabridged 1921 Edition of 8 Short Fiction Stories)

But now that we can read, what prevents us from judging the results? Before we bring another child into the world we must swear that we will find out what the world is like."

"Why," she asked, "if men write such rubbish as this, should our mothers have wasted their youth in bringing them into the world?"

cannot describe the desolation which fell upon us as she opened a little volume and mouthed out the verbose, sentimental foolery which it contained.