...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...le difficulty in finding his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ...ojecting cor- ners, technically a “wing-poke”; that and his tie, which was new and loose and rich in colouring, had been selected to encourage and sti... ...in fact, The Port Burdock Drapery Bazaar at Port Burdock, one of the three townships that are grouped around the Port Bur- dock naval dockyards. There... ...ent manners, and so was the little fish shop at the end of the street. The Berlin-wool shop having gone bankrupt, became a newspaper shop, then fell t... ...E FOLLOWED an anxious peace for three days, and then a rough man in a blue jersey, in the intervals of trying to choke himself with bread and cheese a...