The Glass DogAn accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement
house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought.
What he didn't know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he
possessed all the books and recipes of all the wizards who had
lived before him; and, moreover, he had invented several
wizardments himself.
This admirable person would have been completely happy but for
the numerous interruptions to his studies caused by folk who came
to consult him about their troubles (in which he was not
interested), and by the loud knocks of the iceman, the milkman, the
baker's boy, the laundryman and the peanut woman. He never dealt
with any of these people; but they rapped at his door every day to
see him about this or that or to try to sell hi
