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The Unicorn in the Garden
"The Unicorn in the Garden" is a short story written by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's humorous modern fables, it first appeared in ''The New Yorker'' on October 31, 1939; and was first collected in his book ''Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated'' (Harper and Brothers, 1940). The fable has since been reprinted in ''The Thurber Carnival'' (Harper and Brothers, 1945), ''James Thurber: Writings and Drawings'' (The Library of America, 1996, ISBN 1-883011-22-1), ''The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales'', and other publications. It is taught in literature and rhetoric courses.
==Plot summary==
A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden and tells his wife about it. She ridicules him, telling him "the unicorn is a mythical beast" and calls him a "booby". When he persists, she threatens to send him to the "booby hatch" (the mental institution). He persists, and she summons the authorities. However, after she tells them what her husband saw and they note her own somewhat loony-looking facial features, they force her into a straitjacket. They then ask the husband if he told his wife he had seen a unicorn. Not wanting to be locked up himself, he prudently tells them that he has not, because "the unicorn is a mythical beast." Thus they take the wife away instead, and "the husband lived happily ever after". The story ends with, "Moral: Don't count your boobies before they're hatched", a play on the popular adage, "Don't count your babies (chickens ) before they're hatched", meaning, don't accept as a certainty that which you merely hope or expect will occur.
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