BUYING A NEW CLOAK Foster's shop was the shop of Monkshaven.

It was kept by two Quaker brothers, who were now old men; and their father had kept it before them; probably his father before that.

People remembered it as an old-fashioned dwelling-house, with a sort of supplementary shop with unglazed windows projecting from the lower story.

These openings had long been filled with panes of glass that at the present day would be accounted very small, but which seventy years ago were much admired for their size.

I can best make you understand the appearance of the place by bidding you think of the long openings in a butcher's shop, and then to fill them up in your imagination with panes about eight inches by six, in a heavy wooden frame.