TY - BOOK AU - Frame, Janet, TI - The reservoir, and other stories AV - PR9641.F7 U1 - NZ823.2 21 PY - 1966/// CY - Christchurch, N.Z. PB - Pegasus KW - Short stories, New Zealand N1 - First published, with stories in a different order, as The reservoir, stories and sketches. New York : G. Braziller, 1963; A night of frost and a morning of mist -- The press gang -- The terrible screaming -- The mythmaker's office -- The pleasures of arithmetic -- The red-currant bush, the black-currant bush, the gooseberry bush, the African thorn hedge, and the garden gate who was once the head of an iron bedstead -- An epidemic -- The daylight and the dust -- Solutions -- The man who lost confidence -- One must give up -- Two sheep -- The reservoir -- Prizes -- A sense of proportion -- Royal icing -- obstacles -- Stink-pot -- Hecate, you look angerly -- The bull calf -- The teacup -- Flu and eye trouble -- An incident in mid-ocean -- The advocate -- The chosen image -- The linesman -- The salesman -- How can I get in touch with Persia -- A relative of the famous -- Burial in sand -- The triumph of poetry ER -