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Still, though there was a good deal of wind to be heard, he went on to explain that the cottage was, as I have already said, well sheltered on the cold sides, and also well and strongly built. 'None of your "paper-mashy," one brick thick, run-up-to-tumble-down houses, said Mr. Timbs with satisfaction, which was certainly quite true.
The grocer-man turned the vegetable over and over again in his hand, and then asked the would-be vendor if he had any more. Tom said he hadn't. The locomotor ataxy, he remarked, was a very rare bean, and very valuable. But he would sell it cheap for five shillings. "Don't want it," said the man rudely, pushing it away contemptuously. "It's only a faked-up thing anyway, made of paper-mashy."
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