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...GOAT AND COMPASSES? Martin Armstrong?Harper ($2.00) You gaze down at people from the church steeple of Crome one sea-windy day: thin Susan Furly marching from door to door with the parish magazine; buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves...
...Western oil fields, there is a type of itinerant genius who roams about with an ivory ball on a silk thread, by means of which he assures the gullible that he can divine buried fortunes in oil. He is known as a "doodlebug" and laughed at. Inventor Perry's reluctance to have his Indicator given publicity arose from fear lest he be thought one of these...
...Cathedral, was roughly handled when he attended a miners' fete. Apparently, the miners resented his trying to give both sides to the dispute; for, the moment his presence was noticed, horny hands seized him and raucous voices yelled: "Throw him in the river." The 77-year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman was rushed toward the river. Cooler heads, however, came to his rescue, after which the Bishop merely commented: "I lost my new hat and umbrella...
...petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting: "Go away. Go to the kitchen. That is the place for women. You are talking rubbish when you are talking music. ..." The old woman sits down, begins to tap the floor with her long foot, thinking of Siegfried Wagner, sapless shoot...
...year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman...