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., .. ..UNIT 1 The Dinner PartyI first heard this tale in India, where is told as if true though any naturalist would know it couldn39。t be. Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the First World War. That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down. The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests officers and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumpingonachairatthesightofamouse era and a major who says that they