In Dahl's "Sheep to the Slaughter", an on edge, merry, and pregnant housewife anticipates her spouse's arrival home from work. She discovers him in an abnormally astounded demeanor. Much regrettably, her spouse advises her that he doesn't wish to be hitched to her any more, and that she require not contend with him. In a tranquil wrath, Mrs. Maloney strikes him emphatically on the head's back with a solidified leg of sheep and sends him colliding with the floor. In the wake of unhinging the lounge room to show up as a burglary scene, she then puts the sheep meat in the broiler, races to the market, and after that immediately calls the police to illuminate them of the "shocking
