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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Who was it ate my goldfinch? Yes, you may well look guilty! Don't blink your eyes at me like that! I haven't forgiven you yet, and I don't think I ever shall. Ingred, old sport, are you coming to help me, or are you not? I want some one to hold the wire." "All right, Uncle Podger, I'll come and 'podge' for you," laughed Ingred. "Don't hammer my fingers, that's all I bargain for.
The sherry and biscuits were still being discussed when Mr. Podger, the undertaker, arrived, a broad, cheerfully sorrowful, clean-shaven little man, accompanied by a melancholy-faced assistant.
Podger re-entered the room from a momentary supervision of the bumping business that was now proceeding down the staircase. "Bearing up," he said cheerfully, rubbing his hands together. "Bearing up!" That stuck very vividly in Mr.
And then he would have another try, and, at the second blow, the nail would go clean through the plaster, and half the hammer after it, and Uncle Podger be precipitated against the wall with force nearly sufficient to flatten his nose.
The first thing he would do after breakfast would be to lose his newspaper. We always knew when Uncle Podger had lost anything, by the expression of astonished indignation with which, on such occasions, he would regard the world in general. It never occurred to my Uncle Podger to say to himself: "I am a careless old man. I lose everything: I never know where I have put anything.
That's Harris all over so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. He always reminds me of my poor Uncle Podger. You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job.
That was wisdom I had taught them; I had learned it myself years ago from my Uncle Podger. "Always before beginning to pack," my Uncle would say, "make a list." He was a methodical man. "Take a piece of paper" he always began at the beginning "put down on it everything you can possibly require, then go over it and see that it contains nothing you can possibly do without.
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