Bertie’s Christmas Eve

"Bertie's Christmas Eve" by H. H. Munro (Saki) opens on a cosy family Christmas Eve gathering shadowed by one simmering resentment: Bertie Steffink, the incorrigible ne'er-do-well nephew, is being packed off to Rhodesia against his will. While the rest of the household troop down to the cowshed at midnight to test a Russian legend about talking animals, Bertie locks them all inside—then fills the house with a carload of rowdy strangers, depletes the champagne, and demolishes the rock-garden, orchestrating the most gleefully chaotic Christmas Eve imaginable.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.