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He wanted something to eat, and a glass of ale to refresh himself; so he turned his steps to an inn. He was just about to enter when the ostler came out, and they met at the door. The ostler was carrying a sack. "What have you in that sack?" asked the peasant. "Rotten apples," answered the ostler; "a whole sackful of them. They will do to feed the pigs with."
'Twouldn't take long to finish me, would it? I don't want eggs for supper. Let's have rice." "Is there any?" "A whole sackful." "Do you know how to cook it?" "Why, in water, of course, just like mush or oatmeal, only it takes longer to get soft." "Then maybe we better put it on to boil now. How much shall we cook?"
I had never heard the postmaster say anything but “Only papers, to-day,” or, “I’ve got a sackful of mail for ye,” until this afternoon. Grandmother always talked, dear woman; to herself or to the Lord, if there was no one else to listen; but grandfather was naturally taciturn, and Jake and Otto were often so tired after supper that I used to feel as if I were surrounded by a wall of silence.
"Well, if you think fifteen hundred pounds too much for my carcase and a ship of twenty men, you can go seek a cheaper market elsewhere." "You think there is very small likelihood of coming back alive?" "Why, comrade, 'tis as if you should go into a den of lions and hope to get out whole; for though I have the Duke's pass, these Moors are no fitter to be trusted than a sackful of serpents.
How many arts do you understand? 'I understand but one, replied the cat, modestly. 'What art is that? asked the fox. 'When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself. 'Is that all? said the fox. 'I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning.
Say a Fiji islander came here and took back with him from the United States an electric light bulb, a stuffed possum, an old hat, a stalactite from the Mammoth cave, a sackful of pecan nuts, a pair of handcuffs, half a dozen photographs and a dozen packing cases full of things gathered from here and there, and then set the whole junk pile up under a roof in the Fiji Islands, what would his fellow Fijians know from that of the social life of this country.
And so the old question comes 'Why do ye spend your money for that which is not bread? It is bread, if only you will remember first that God is the food of your souls. But if you try to nourish yourselves on it alone, then, as I said, a sackful of such ashes will not stay your appetite.
No Colombo merchant or magnate, or man or woman of the official set, is superior to tempting fortune by buying a few thousand oysters freshly landed from Marichchikkaddi. And the interminable question of caste, banning many things to Cingalese and Tamil, inhibits not the right to gamble upon the contents of a sackful of bivalves.
To return to the hailstones. The greatest destruction had fallen on the wild birds. Before the storm immense numbers of golden plover had appeared and were in large flocks on the plain. One of our native boys rode in and offered to get a sackful of plover for the table, and getting the sack he took me up on his horse behind him.
Of course money has its part, for everything has; and whoever has money is bound to use it as best he knows; but his best is generally an attempt to do saint-work by devil- proxy. "I can't think where on earth-you got such a sackful of extravagant notions!" Mr. Redmain added. "I told you before, sir, I had a father who set me thinking!" answered Mary.
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