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The little sitting-room was furnished with Chippendale chairs, and a little Chippendale sideboard with drawers, and a bookcase with glass doors above and a cupboard below, in which Aunt Victoria used to keep her stores of tea, coffee, sugar, and currants in mustard-tins.

"Three hundred and twenty-two pounds. All gone!" In a fit of sudden generosity Mr. Teak decided then and there that Mr. Chase should have the odd twenty-two pounds. "You're dreaming!" he said, sternly. "I wish I was," said his wife, wiping her eyes. "Three hundred and twenty-two pounds in empty mustard-tins. Every ha'penny's gone!" Mr. Teak's eye fell on the stove.

"Three hundred and twenty-two pounds. All gone!" In a fit of sudden generosity Mr. Teak decided then and there that Mr. Chase should have the odd twenty-two pounds. "You're dreaming!" he said, sternly. "I wish I was," said his wife, wiping her eyes. "Three hundred and twenty-two pounds in empty mustard-tins. Every ha'penny's gone!" Mr. Teak's eye fell on the stove.

The stable-boy was blowing shrilly through a tin whistle, and the fat old cook was dashing trays of empty mustard-tins on the stone floor, and going off into peals of laughter between each movement.

No convoy-ite sees the difference! I think I have learnt every phase of muddle and makeshift this winter, but chiefly have I learnt the value of the Biblical recommendation to put candles on candlesticks. In the "convoi Munro" I find them in bottles, on the lids of mustard-tins, in metal cups, or in the necks of bedroom carafes. Never is the wax removed. Where it drips there it remains.