# Abracadabra & other satires

Author: Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75431

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Abracadabra+%26+other+satires+Galsworthy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Our families occupied neighbouring houses in the country, and Minna used to hide in the bathroom whenever our governess took us round. She was to us but a symbol of shyness for months before she became a body--a very thin body, with dark, straggly hair, and dark eyes, and very long legs and arms for an eight-year-old. Looking back on her hardihoods from eight to fifteen, I find difficulty in assigning to the bathroom period its full significance, to realise that she actually used to make herself invisible because she could not face strange people even of her own age. She faced us so beautifully afterward, would steal up behind and pull our hairs, and bag our caps and throw them up on to t...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/abracadabra-and-other-satires-75431/chapters/16/index.md)