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BUBBLE & SQUEAK

... you begin your report? Trumbull started dictating. My God, Frank, you should have been here last Sunday! Coming into the kitchen from shopping, she could smell burning. Oh, John, she said reproachfully, you promised you 'd keep an eye on the joint ...

Trey Of Hearts: A Short Story

... would leave his money in proportion, as it had been deserved, and hadn't she deserved it? God, hadn't she deserved it? In the kitchen Amy stacked the plates in the sink where Mrs. Bloggs was helping out with the washing-up. now s 11 gomg r asicea ivirs. moggs ...

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Presenting The Edwardian Story

... friend at the famed inn at La Fere, where a rattle of many dishes came to our ears we sighted a great field of tablecloth the kitchen glowed like a forge and smelt like a garden of things to eat. But the landlady, flushed, full of affairs, would have none ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 938 | Page: 32 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Under New Management: A Short Story

... do the same. Wayne laughed. I've something fixed up for you, he said. A policeman's job. Shep will be relegated to the kitchen. He knows a little about preparing Chinese food. You can help him, and at the same time make sure he doesn't forget what he's ...

One Shot Too Many

... Scott did as he was told and stood patiently. He heard doors being opened and shut, the bathroom door, his bedroom door, the kitchen door, opened quickly, shut quietly. He thought: Yes, it would always have to be like that. Quick, furtive opening of doors ...

Pity's Kin

... and his over coat. Millie, smiling regretfully, was there before him, holding the front door open. Cook was waving from the kitchen win dow. No one said anything. Paul smiled and waved. Everything was said. Walking back alone from the station Christine thought ...

Any Other Business?

... table by the wall Martha Emmett called out Lumpy, just keep an eye on things for a moment, will you, whilst I pop into the kitchen? Lumpy was delighted. He reckoned if Widow Emmett started to ask him to do things for 'er there might be 'ope for 'im after ...

Cat And Dog: The Perfectly Obvious Is Not Always The Right Clue In A Murder Problem

... ture, not over-clean, and completely sur rounded and hemmed in by cats. There were several cats on her knee, several on the kitchen table, and a lot more disposed in baskets on the tiled floor. There were cats on the window ledges, cats on the dresser and ...

Flat To Let: What was the cause of the hurried removal of a pair of tenants from the Georgian house in a street ..

... Quite unexpectedly a flat has become avail able in Randolph Row. On the first floor two bedrooms, sitting-room, bathroom, and kitchen. A most charming Georgian street. Quiet and dignified. Yes, very nice neighbours. Most refined and respectable. Knitted For ...

On Rainbow Bridge: A Short Story

... keep a solemn vigil, darling, just because we're being married to-morrow. She turned to Sylvia. Come on, let's go into the kitchen and put up some lunch. We'll go over to the Canadian side. It's lovely there for a picnic. Shall we need our passports? ...

The Honest Man

... Possession was for Michaelmas and he would rather not have gone near before that, but for the fact that he had plans for the kitchen garden. The glass, he had heard, was in poor repair and since he was a practical man and meant to make Cloudwater pay its ...

GIRL OF THE OUTBACK

... in front of him. No, she said, and went out to the kitchen. Behind her she heard Ellen say Take it easy, Steve. Martha 's not one of your city girls. In the early afternoon she was in the kitchen preparing vegetables for the evening meal, when Steve ...