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I scowled upon them with disfavour, and a massy, blue thunder-head rose majestically from behind the elm-trees of Sumtner Barton Rectory, arched over and scowled with me. Then I realised that it was not bees nor locusts that had darkened the skies, but the on-coming of the malignant English thunderstorm the one thing before which even Deborah the bee cannot express her silly little self. 'Aha!

'What's the matter with lunching by the roadside here? said Penfentenyou. 'We've got the lunch-basket. 'Haven't you ever heard of Sumtner Barton ales? I demanded, and be became the administrator at once, saying, 'I see! Lingnam can drive us in and we'll get some, while Holford' this was the hireling chauffeur, whose views on beer we knew not 'lays out lunch here.

And we wasted more than fifty miles of summer's vivid own England upon him the while. About two o'clock we topped Sumtner Rising and looked down on the village of Sumtner Barton, which lies just across a single railway line, spanned by a red brick bridge. The thick, thunderous June airs brought us gusts of melody from a giddy-go-round steam-organ in full blast near the pond on the village green.

That'll be better than eating at the pub. We can take in the Foresters' Fête as well, and perhaps I can buy some newspapers at the station. 'True, I answered. 'The railway station is just under that bridge, and we'll come back and lunch here. I indicated a terrace of cool clean shade beneath kindly beeches at the head of Sumtner Rise.