LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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["Never mind the ink, old horse. It'll soak in"][Frontispiece]
[They had a momentary vision of an excited dog, framed in the doorway][56]
["I've only bin and drove 'im further up," said Mrs. Beale][120]
[Things were not going very well on our model chicken farm][140]
["Mr. Garnet," he said, "we parted recently in anger. I hope that bygones will be bygones"][160]
["I did think Mr. Garnet would have fainted when the best man said, 'I can't find it, old horse'"][340]

A LETTER with a
POSTSCRIPT

r. Jeremy Garnet stood with his back to the empty grate—for the time was summer—watching with a jaundiced eye the removal of his breakfast things.

"Mrs. Medley," he said.

"Sir?"