While approaching one of these objects with a spaniel, Ronnie sings the song “Bertie, why do you bound.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this type of object that titles a short story in which a girl claims a man fled a house because he was hunted by a pack of dogs in the Ganges.
ANSWER: window [accept “The Open Window”]
[10m] “The Open Window” is a short story by this author, who wrote about the werewolf “Gabriel-Ernest” and a boy who develops a religion around his pet ferret in “Sredni Vashtar.”
ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]
[10e] In Saki’s story “Tobermory,” Cornelius Appin is crushed by an elephant after supposedly trying to teach it irregular verbs in this language used by Herman Hesse.
ANSWER: German [or Deutsch]
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