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Plot summary. A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden and tells his wife about it. She ridicules him, telling him "the unicorn is a mythical beast" and calls him a "booby". When he persists, she threatens to send him to the "booby hatch" (the mental institution). He persists, and she summons the authorities.
Apr 14, 2020 · Summary. The Unicorn in the Garden is about a man and his wife. One morning tha man sees a unicorn in the garden eating flowers. Positively excited he goes upstairs to the bedroom where his wife is still asleep and tells her what he has seen.
Dec 3, 2018 · The Unicorn in the Garden tells a story of a man who sees a unicorn in his garden but on asking his wife to come witness the spectacle, she dismisses him as crazy. The wife tells the...
The Unicorn in the Garden James Thurber. Once upon a sunny morning, a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a gold horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her.
The Unicorn in the Garden, the most famous of Thurber's humorous modern fables, first appeared in The New Yorker on October 31, 1939; and was first collected in his book Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Harper and Brothers, 1940).
"There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses." She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. "The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; he was now browsing among the tulips(3). "Here, unicorn," said the
Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses."
