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Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles
MRS BINDLE
SOME INCIDENTS FROM THE
DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE BINDLES
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
Ever since the success achieved by Bindle, Herbert Jenkins has been urged to write giving Mrs. Bindle's point of view. This book is the result.
Among other things, it narrates how Mrs. Bindle caught a chill, how a nephew was born to her and what effect it had upon her outlook.
It tells how she encountered a bull, and what happened to the man who endeavoured to take forcible possession of her home.
She is shown as breaking a strike by precipitating a lock-out, burning incense to her brother-in-law, Mr. Hearty, and refusing the armistice that was offered.
One chapter tells of her relations with her neighbours. Another deals with a musical evening she planned, and yet a third of how she caught a chill and was in great fear of heaven.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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| ADVENTURES OF BINDLE | 2s. 6d. net. |
| JOHN DENE OF TORONTO | 2s. 6d. net. |
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MRS
BINDLE
SOME INCIDENTS FROM THE
DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE BINDLES
BY
HERBERT
JENKINS
HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
YORK STREET ST. JAMES'S S.W.1.
Ninth printing, completing 104,643 copies
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
PURNELL AND SONS, PAULTON (SOMERSET) AND LONDON
TO
ARTHUR
COMPTON
RICKETT
M.A., LL.D.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | MRS. BINDLE'S LOCK-OUT | 9 |
| II. | MRS. BINDLE'S WASHING-DAY | 38 |
| III. | MRS. BINDLE ENTERTAINS | 60 |
| IV. | THE COMING OF JOSEPH THE SECOND | 89 |
| V. | MRS. BINDLE BURNS INCENSE | 108 |
| VI. | MRS. BINDLE DEFENDS HER HOME | 125 |
| VII. | MRS. BINDLE DEMANDS A HOLIDAY | 150 |
| VIII. | THE SUMMER-CAMP FOR TIRED WORKERS | 168 |
| IX. | MR. HEARTY ENCOUNTERS A BULL | 188 |
| X. | THE COMING OF THE WHIRLWIND | 209 |
| XI. | MRS. BINDLE TAKES A CHILL | 237 |
| XII. | MRS. BINDLE BREAKS AN ARMISTICE | 263 |
| XIII. | MRS. BINDLE'S DISCOVERY | 283 |
MRS BINDLE
CHAPTER I
MRS. BINDLE'S LOCK-OUT
I
"Well! What's the matter now? Lorst your job?"
With one hand resting upon the edge of the pail beside which she was kneeling, Mrs. Bindle looked up, challenge in her eyes. Bindle's unexpected appearance while she was washing the kitchen oilcloth filled her with foreboding.
"There's a strike on at the yard," he replied in a tone which, in spite of his endeavour to render it casual, sounded like a confession of guilt. He knew Mrs. Bindle; he knew also her views on strikes.
"A what?" she cried, rising to her feet and wiping her hands upon the coarse canvas apron that covered the skirt carefully festooned about her hips. "A what?"
"A strike," repeated Bindle. "They give Walter 'Odson the sack, so we all come out."
"Oh! you have, have you?" she cried, her thin lips disappearing ominously. "And when are you going back, I'd like to know?" She regarded him with an eye that he knew meant war.
"Can't say," he replied, as he proceeded to fill his pipe from a tin tobacco-box. "Depends on the Union," he added.
"The Union!" she cried with rising wrath. "I wish I had them here. I'd give them Union, throwing men out of work, with food the price it is. What's going to 'appen to