ANIMAL WORSHIP
eas fore THE FOOTHILLS. By E. . Oswald-Sealey (New Zealand) Lid. Auckland. HIS is a collection of 14 stories written by a New Zealand woman, but reprinted from the Sydney Bulletin.
They are extravagant, improbable, often quite impossible, but charged with a kind of frantic sincerity that proves contagious. Mr. Bundle and his hunter lead the parade in the half-humorous, wholly pathetic first story. In the others a company of animal heroes and heroines appear, all ridiculously humanised, but nearly all interesting and even appeal« ing. Little scrubby merinos stream over the hill-crests. Whirlwind, the untamed, meets his thoroughbred mare. A Jersey bull fights a Hereford. Polly, the Heifer, adopts a fawn. A Southdown ram turns outlaw till fire and tempest make him humble. And so on. Mary Gurney (who died in 1938 by a kick from a horse), not merely knew and loved animals: she worshipped and glorified them. Her words are extravagant. Her pictures often fantastic. But in spite of everything, her scenes come alive.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 15
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168ANIMAL WORSHIP New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 15
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