10/23 Any way, the apples were there, and a good many of them. I didn't see them myself, but they tell me there might have been up to ten stone altogether. Well, one night the half of them was gone. The gossures from about the town had them ate." "Of course they had," said Meldon. "What would you expect ?" "What nobody would expect," said Doyle, "was the temper Simpkins was in in the morning. |