They advised her to ask the storekeeper.

SEE Newman, Ernest. NEWTON, RUTH E. Little storekeepers.

On 19th January 1761, Lord Colville records in his Journal that he had "directed the storekeeper to pay the Master of the Northumberland, fifty pounds in consideration of his indefatigable industry in making himself master of the pilotage of the River St. Lawrence."

" Sam Cotting, being himself of great local importance, had never regarded with favor the rivalry of the nabob, but he placed stools near the telephone booth for the three girls, who accepted the courtesy with a graciousness that ought to have disarmed the surly storekeeper.

When news came to Candle Creek that the Government service had been discontinued the storekeeper, one end of whose bar served as post-office, sacked his accumulated letters and intrusted them to some friends who were traveling southward on the morrow.

His family, the Barwoods, had been from the earliest times a race of shrewd and driving New England storekeepers, the very antipodes of sentiment and dilettanteism.

"Here, let them alone," growled the storekeeper.

Since then Oily Dave had hated the storekeeper with a zest and energy which bade fair to become the ruling passion of his life; but except for a few minor disagreeables, that could hardly be said to count, his ill will had thus far not gone beyond sneer and invective.

"The ham is all right, Zeph," insisted the storekeeper.

" "It runs fast in hot weather," observed the storekeeper.

"And yet," pursued the storekeeper, "think of a full-grown man breaking the law to save such a skinny little shrimp of a gent as Jig?

He questioned the storekeeper.

I wasn't a-goin' to take nobody's word in such a matter, and hauled her on down to the store and seed the storekeeper pay her extry for that thar butterand here we air.

" "You don't think we're rehearsin' with him, do you?" snapped the storekeeper.

She had accompanied the Tinito storekeeper of Taravao to Vaieri, and would not permit me to go on alone.

The deductions were easily verifiedboth the storekeeper and the blacksmith were married men!

Sh!" answered the storekeeper, making another move on the checkerboard.