Английский с улыбкой. Охотничьи рассказы / Tales of the Long Bow

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Гилберт Кит Честертон
Английский с улыбкой:Охотничьи рассказы = Tales of the Long Bow
© Пирогов М. С., адаптация текста, комментарии, словарь, 2016
© ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2016
Chapter I. The unpresentable appearance of colonel crane
These stories tell about things recognized as impossible to do. If the writer just said that they happened, without saying how they happened, nobody would believe him, just like no one believes the story about the cow who jumped over the moon.
The first story begins on a straight road of bright houses in a suburb of a big city. The time was about twenty minutes to eleven on Sunday morning, when a procession of suburban families in Sunday clothes were going up the road to church. And the man was a very respectable retired military man named Colonel Crane, who was also going to church, as he had done every Sunday at the same hour for many years. He was dressed very elegantly for church as if for parade; but his clothes did not stand out in any way. He was...