Say at 11 A.M." I put on my hat and bade my friend good day.

I have often been tempted to throw things at people, and have withheld my hand; but I never felt Satan so strong upon me as at that moment, and I very much fear that if I had had anything in the way of a kitchen-poker or a carving-knife about me, I should have flung that missile at the patriarchal head of my saintly Jonah.

As it was, I bade him good day and returned to the Swan, where I took a hurried repast and started for the station, carrying a light carpet-bag with me, as I was not likely to return till the following night, at the earliest.
I arrived at the station ten minutes before the starting of the train, and had to endure ten minutes of that weariness called waiting.

I exhausted the interest of all the advertisements on the station walls; found out how I could have my furniture removed with the utmost convenience--supposing myself to possess furniture; discovered where I ought to buy a dinner-service, and the most agreeable kind of blind to screen my windows in sunny weather.

I was still lingering over the description of this new invention in blinds, when a great bell set up a sudden clanging, and the down train from London came thundering into the station.
This was also the train for Black Harbour.