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Updated: June 5, 2025
Not long afterwards, Mr Sharp knocked at the door of a small house in one of the suburbs of Clatterby, and was ushered into the presence of Mrs Podge. That amiable lady was seated by the fire knitting a stocking. "Good afternoon, Mrs Podge," said Mr Sharp, bowing and speaking in his blandest tones. "I hope I see you quite well?"
Podge felt a sense of strangling, as if going down, in a hollow gulf of resounding wave, and shouted: "Help! Save me! Save me!" She heard a voice like the principal teacher's, say in a lapping, watery way, "Miss Byerly, what is the meaning of this? Your division is in disorder. Nobody has recited. Unless you are ill I must suspend you and call another teacher here." "Help!
Duff Salter did not finish the sneeze, but with a long face called for a boat and rower to take him across to Treaty Island. Podge arrived at school just as the bell was ringing, and, still in nervousness and tears, took her place in her division while the Bible was read.
To our astonishment we found she had only seen him once since the murder, and that was the night the bodies were discovered." "How could you extract that from a self-contained woman like Agnes Wilt?" asked Duff Salter, deeply interested. "We got it from Podge Byerly." "Jerusalem!" exclaimed Duff Salter aloud, knocking over the snuff-box and forgetting to sneeze. "Mr.
"Agnes has given me board for a hundred dollars a year," said Podge, "but times have changed with her now, and money is scarce. She would take other boarders, but public opinion is against her on all sides. It's against me too. But for love we would have separated long ago." Podge's tears came.
The lady at the head of the table wore a pretty smile which she shut away under her eyelids again and again, and looked gently at Calvin. "Dear Agnes!" ejaculated Mrs. Knox, "I never blamed her so much as that bold little creature, Podge Byerly! No one could make any impression upon Agnes's confidence until that bright little thing went to board with her.
Slyder in black clothes glide into the club in that peculiar manner of his, like an amateur undertaker. "Hullo, Slyder," I called to him, "you look as solemn as if you had been to a funeral." "I have," he said very quietly, and then added, "poor Podge!" "What about him?" I asked with sudden apprehension. "Why, he died on Tuesday," answered the doctor. "Hadn't you heard?
He says he had made a trial of this plan, by steeping the grain at night, and boiling it next morning; in this manner it made what he terms "a very nice podge," like pease-pudding, and, to his taste, preferable to stirabout.
Some time I may have the pleasure of tasting her famous cooking that you rate so highly. But to turn to another subject, Thad, have you heard any more reports about those Keyport High fellows we expect to go up against next Saturday?" "Yes, I have, Hugh. Podge Huggins was over there two days back.
First came a tolerably good band, a little too drummy, but still not amiss well dressed, only the performers being of all colours, from white, down to jet black, had a curious hodge podge, or piebald appearance. Then came a dozen mounted officers at the very least colonels in chief, and colonels, and lieutenant colonels, and majors all very fine, and very bad horsemen.
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