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She flattened her voice in a manner she used to intimate aesthetic feeling. "I do like them glass hearses," she said. "So refined and nice they are." "Podger's hearse you'll have," said Johnson conclusively. "It's the best in Easewood." "Everything that's right and proper," said Mr. Polly. "Podger's ready to come and measure at any time," said Johnson.
For instance, the very name of this place, Prior's Park, makes everybody think of it as a moonlit mediaeval abbey; I dare say the spiritualists by this time have discovered the ghost of a monk there. But, according to the only authoritative study of the matter I can find, the place was simply called Prior's as any rural place is called Podger's. It was the house of a Mr.
William was much surprised to find that this house, which everybody knew as "Mother Podger's house," should now really belong to Captain Hardy; and he said so. "You'd hardly know it, would you, since I've fixed it up, and made it ship-shape like?" said the Captain. "I've done it nearly all myself too. And now what do you think I've called it?"
Look down there where the smoke curls up among the trees, that's from my kitchen." "But," said William, "that's Mother Podger's house where the smoke is." "So it was once, my lad," answered the old man; "but it's mine now; for I've bought it, and paid for it too; and now I mean to quit roaming about the world, and to settle down there for the remainder of my days.
From my Uncle Podger's house to the railway station was eight minutes' walk. What my uncle always said was: "Allow yourself a quarter of an hour, and take it easily." What he always did was to start five minutes before the time and run. I do not know why, but this was the custom of the suburb.
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