2Р5Р1Р4Р6РGlobal ReadingРI first heard this tale in India, where it is told as if true — though any naturalist would know it couldn’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.РThe Dinner Party ? Mona GardnerРThe 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.РA heated discussion about whether men are braver than women is settled in a rather unexpected way.РUnit 1 The Dinner PartyРDetailed Reading
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