Show TIE VILLAGE SHOP All the cottages or nearly all stand back from the road their lower windows win-dows half hidden from view by the old and wellgrown currant and goose berry bushes lilacs and yews Some are half timbered and thatched others are of warm red brick with tiled wide eaved roofs not the staring red brick of the town villa residence but the mellow tint which makes such a per fect harmony with Its setting of Eng lish fields and trees I is over the door of of one these latter that we read the notice Postoffice the usual t adjunct of the village shop As we go u the path we see the window on L the right of the door exhibits a varied assortment of attractions principally show cards two or three open boxes of sweets peppermints and hokey pokey some penny bottles of ink sauce and hair oil a pegtop or two and some marbles This display is entirely shut off from any but mounted passersby by a large clump of lupins growing a yard I from the window But this is of little importance everyone in the neighbor hood knows the shop and what is i likely to be obtainable in i and the only customers who pause before en tering to inspect the window are chil dren who when presented with a half penny as a reward for or incentive to especially meritorious behavior may be sen standing on tiptoe for a pro longed survey unable to make up their minds between the known virtues i of peppermints and the untried qualities quaI ties of the latest thing in sweet stuffs brought from the town last market day Chambers Journal |