Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped

H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki, wrote wickedly comic sattires of upper-class Edwardian life. These seven short stories are macabre and extremely funny: they include a cat that is regrettably taught to speak, a vicious pet ferret worshipped as a god, a businessman triumpantly selling an unpalatable breakfast mush, and many dark twists and barbs.