flavours. Grindley junior studied the printing business. It
almost seemed as if old Appleyard had been waiting but for this.
Some six months later they found him dead in his counting-house.
Grindley junior became the printer and publisher of Good Humour.



STORY THE FOURTH: Miss Ramsbotham gives her Services



To regard Miss Ramsbotham as a marriageable quantity would have
occurred to few men. Endowed by Nature with every feminine quality
calculated to inspire liking, she had, on the other hand, been
disinherited of every attribute calculated to excite passion. An
ugly woman has for some men an attraction; the proof is ever
present to our eyes. Miss Ramsbotham was plain but pleasant
looking. Large, healthy in mind and body, capable, self-reliant,
and cheerful, blessed with a happy disposition together with a keen
sense of humour, there was about her absolutely nothing for
tenderness to lay hold of. An ideal wife, she was an impossible
sweetheart. Every man was her friend. The suggestion that any man
could be her lover she herself would have greeted with a clear,
ringing laugh.

Not that she held love in despite; for such folly she was possessed
of far too much sound sense. "To have somebody in love with you--
somebody strong and good," so she would confess to her few close
intimates, a dreamy expression clouding for an instant her broad,
sunny face, "why, it must be just lovely!" For Miss Ramsbotham was