“The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime.”
The consequences of holding a never-ending feud are highly emphasized in the short story that Saki warns his readers about. Two men, Georg and Ulrich have hated each other ever since the dispute of land possession had erupted and had never been decided between the two. When both men go into the forest to kill each other both are instead attacked by nature when a birch tree falls on them leaving them helplessly pinned to ground. As they lay in the night their hatred dies down, and they eventually reach a compromise. However, no happy ending is gained, when suddenly a hungry pack of wolves approach the two stuck men. A story of man versus man, man versus nature, and man versus himself, Saki leaves the reader shocked and perplexed at the sight they just read.
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