Fur is story written by British writer, Hector Hugh Munro, which is famous by his pen name Saki. The Central theme of story is friendship and egocentric.
FUR BY HECTOR HUGH MUNRO ( SAKI )

Summary of Fur By Saki
Saki’s “Fur” story begins with character, Eleanor, who tell her friend, Suzanne, that she is looking upset. Suzanne tells that she is very anxious. Eleanor ask why are you anxious ? Suzanne tells, you know my birthday is at next week. Eleanor replied, yes its good thing then why are you upset ? Suzanne tells that her mother’s cousin, Bertram has come from Argentina to England.
Bertram is so rich that me and mother never ignored our relation with him. The People never break their relation with rich relatives. Suzanne tells, even though we haven’t seen him for years yet whenever he comes, he always give me gift on my birthday. .
And this time again he has ask me what gift I want on my birthday? Eleanor says, oh now I understood your problem. Suzanne says, I saw one statue in market which I am thinking of telling him about but it is very expensive so I’m confused. Eleanor tells, think of what kind of gift he wants to give you. Think accordingly whether he would be able to give you expensive gift or not.
Suzanne says, how should I tell him that I am going on vacation in winter and travelling equipment would best choice as gift. Like he can gift me better quality jacket. By the way I have lots of jackets but what I doesn’t have is a Fur Jacket.
Therefore fur jacket would be a best choice. I wish I could tell him that I need Fur jacket. Eleanor says, do you know when he goes out from home or what are his habits. Suzanne tells her that If day is good, generally he goes at his club around 3 pm. Eleanor says, we will go tomorrow with full planning and meet him suddenly, we won’t let him know that we came to meet him with proper planning.
We will meet him, bring him on walk and tries to take him inside Fur Jacket shop. And trick him to buy you Fur jacket. Suzanne replied, its a good idea. Therefore, meet me tomorrow around 3:15 pm to execute our plan. Next day, Eleanor and Suzanne meet at 3:15 pm and goes near showroom.
In the meantime time, Eleanor demanded something from Suzanne. She invite Suzanne in her home at night to help her in playing game with her Aunts. I want to meet Harry at 9 pm so I need to be free. Therefore, please help me with dealing with my Aunt. Suzanne clearly says no to Eleanor, as she can’t play with her Aunts because their game bore her.
After some time, Suzanne saw Bertram coming, she tells Eleanor about it. When Bertram saw Suzanne and Eleanor, he welcome them. They convinced Bertram to go market with them. The market was full of people but still they goes inside in it. Bertram ask Eleanor, is this market full all the time ? Eleanor tells him that winter shopping has started that’s why market it is full of people.
Suzanne was going ahead excitedly while Eleanor and Bertram following behind. Eleanor sees opportunity, she tells Bertram that Suzanne birthday is at next Wednesday, and my birthday comes one day before her so we both are thinking of gifting something to each other.
Bertram says, yes I know it is her birthday next week. Therefore, please suggest me what should I gift to her on her birthday as I also want to give something to her. Eleanor suggest Bertram to gift a fan to Suzanne on hers birthday. She lied to Bertram that Suzanne needed a fan instead fur jacket. Eleanor tells him one more thing that they open each other’s birthday gifts after their birthday.
She added, Suzanne has lots of people to give her gifts but only few people give gifts to me. See, I had a relative who had promised to gift me a fur stall on my birthday and I was very excited to receive the gift but during those days his wife died, so tell me how can I expect a gift from him on such situation.
Therefore, I would never get a fur stall. You know, when I see stall on someone’s I neck, I feel like crying. It happened because of hopes, I had hope that I would receive fur stall but I doesn’t get it.
After few days, Suzanne phone Eleanor in anger, she tells her that she received a fan in gift from Bertram. Eleanor replied that she also have received a gift from Bertram. And you should see what he gave me. Suzanne says, why he gave a gift to you ?
Eleanor received a Fur stall from Bertram which Suzanne wanted. And this is where the conflict between the two began. This fight was started by Suzanne because when Eleanor asked for help from her, she denied her.
The moral of the story no matter how much a person close to you, there should be a certain distance.