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Both short stories are about people who have been tricked by street beggars. In ñDuskî by Saki, the narrator is tricked into loaning a lost young man a sovereign. In ñUmbrella Manî by Ronald Dahl, the mother and daughter are tricked into buying a silk umbrella that�s not even the beggar�s for a pound note.

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