A funny thing happened on the way to the cemetry : scenes from a Sri Lankan life
Carl Muller (Author)
Nineteen side-splitting stories from Sri Lanka to begin this chronicle of the funny things that have happened to him, Muller goes back to his days as a recruit in the royal ceylon navy when the queen of England came a-visiting: the saucy sailors decide to tip her a wink! the second story takes us back to Mullers childhood in Anuradhapura where two visiting rat snakes turn out to be a railway linesmans grandparents there are further hilarious adventures in the navy, encounters with more snakes of different sizes and lineage, graphic descriptions of jam-making factories, and hazardous days in the gulf effortlessly, muller creates caricatures that leave you helpless with laughter as they highlight the follies and foibles of the human race
short stories
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Short stories