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In the story, a boy named Nicholas is punished by his strict aunt for putting a frog in his bowl of bread-and-milk at breakfast. He is grounded while his brother and their cousins go out on an afternoon excursion. As further punishment, he is told to stay out of the gooseberry garden. Convinced that Nicholas will disobey her, the aunt puts herself on sentry duty in the garden. Nicholas, however, has a better plan for the afternoon. He intends to sneak into the mysterious lumber room which is always kept locked.

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  • The Lumber Room
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  • In the story, a boy named Nicholas is punished by his strict aunt for putting a frog in his bowl of bread-and-milk at breakfast. He is grounded while his brother and their cousins go out on an afternoon excursion. As further punishment, he is told to stay out of the gooseberry garden. Convinced that Nicholas will disobey her, the aunt puts herself on sentry duty in the garden. Nicholas, however, has a better plan for the afternoon. He intends to sneak into the mysterious lumber room which is always kept locked.
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  • In the story, a boy named Nicholas is punished by his strict aunt for putting a frog in his bowl of bread-and-milk at breakfast. He is grounded while his brother and their cousins go out on an afternoon excursion. As further punishment, he is told to stay out of the gooseberry garden. Convinced that Nicholas will disobey her, the aunt puts herself on sentry duty in the garden. Nicholas, however, has a better plan for the afternoon. He intends to sneak into the mysterious lumber room which is always kept locked. H.H. Munro and his siblings were raised by two very strict aunts. Many of Munro's stories feature clever children taking revenge on authoritarian adults. His sister Ethel, who wrote the Biography of Saki (1924), stated that the character of the aunt in "The Lumber Room" was "Aunt Augasta to the life." A fifteen-minute radio play based on "The Lumber Room" was produced as the first episode of the five-part mini-series of Saki dramatizations Claw Marks on the Curtain. The play first aired on BBC Radio 4 on May 2, 2005. The story was also adapted as the second of three segments of the 2007 BBC television movie Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?
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