How miserable it is that the Globe newspaper offers nothing better to Jacob Flanders! When a child begins to read history one marvels, sorrowfully, to hear him spell out in his new voice the ancient words.
The Prime Minister's speech was reported in something over five columns.
Feeling in his pocket, Jacob took out a pipe and proceeded to fill it.
Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed.

Jacob took the paper over to the fire.

The Prime Minister proposed a measure for giving Home Rule to Ireland.

Jacob knocked out his pipe.

He was certainly thinking about Home Rule in Ireland--a very difficult matter.