sidelong glance at dame Vanthankle, a side and at the least frouresh of a broomstick or laule would fly to the door with gelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with with Rifi Tautintle as years of matrimony rolled on i a tart temper. never mellows with age, and a sharp timque is the only tool that grows keener by constant edge use. For a long while he used to console. himself when drivin pom home, by p frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle per - sonages of a the village hild it's sessions that apbed on unch fe before then a small pole house designated by a portrait of his majesty george the third. Here they used to set in the shade, of a long lazy summers day, village gopip talk listlessly over or tell Fendless sleepy. Stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any doma stalismans heach good money, to have heard the profound disccessions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper hast fell into their hands M. S. Page Sketch Book from the original in the possession of MrJ C Brevoort. |