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diff --git a/23485-8.txt b/23485-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8a00df --- /dev/null +++ b/23485-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1102 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Man's Bag, by T. W. H. Crosland + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Old Man's Bag + +Author: T. W. H. Crosland + +Illustrator: J. R. Monsell + +Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23485] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD MAN'S BAG *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected +without note. + + +THE OLD MAN'S BAG + +T. W. H. CROSLAND AND J. R. MONSELL + +The Dumpy Books for Children + +NO. 22. THE OLD MAN'S BAG. + + +THE DUMPY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. + +_Cloth, Royal 32 mo, 1/6 each._ + + I. The Flamp, the Ameliorator, and the Schoolboy's Apprentice. By + E. V. LUCAS. + + II. Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories. Edited by E. V. LUCAS. + + III. The Bad Family. By MRS. FENWICK. Edited by E. V. LUCAS. + + IV. The Story of Little Black Sambo. Illustrated in Colours. By + HELEN BANNERMAN. + + V. The Bountiful Lady. By THOMAS COBB. + + VI. A Cat Book. Portraits by H. OFFICER SMITH. Text by E. V. LUCAS. + + VII. A Flower Book. Illustrated in Colours by NELLIE BENSON. Text by + EDEN COYBEE. + + VIII. The Pink Knight. Illustrated in Colours by J. R. MONSELL. + + IX. The Little Clown. By THOMAS COBB. + + X. A Horse Book. Illustrated in Colours. By MARY TOURTEL. + + XI. Little People: An Alphabet. Illustrated in Colours by HENRY + MAYER. Verses by T. W. H. CROSLAND. + + XII. A Dog Book. Illustrated in Colours by CARTON MOORE PARK. Text by + ETHEL BICKNELL. + + XIII. The Adventures of Samuel and Selina. Illustrated in Colours by + JEAN C. ARCHER. + + XIV. The Little Girl Lost. By ELEANOR RAPER. + + XV. Dollies. Illustrated in Colours by RUTH COBB. Verses by RICHARD + HUNTER. + + XVI. The Bad Mrs. Ginger. Illustrated in Colours by HONOR C. APPLETON. + + XVII. Peter Piper's Practical Principles. Illustrated in Colours. + +XVIII. Little White Barbara. Illustrated in Colours by ELEANOR S. MARCH. + + XIX. The Japanese Dumpy Book. Illustrated in Colours by YOSHIO MARKINO. + + XX. Towlocks and His Wooden Horse. Illustrated in Colours by HONOR + C. APPLETON. Text by ALICE M. APPLETON. + + XXI. The Three Little Foxes. By MARY TOURTEL. Illustrated in Colours. + + XXII. The Old Man's Bag. By T. W. H. CROSLAND. Illustrated in Colours + by J. R. MONSELL. + +XXIII. The Three Goblins. By M. E. TAGGART. Illustrated in Colours. + +_A Cloth Case to contain Twelve Volumes can be had, price 2s. net; or +the First Twelve Volumes in Case, price £1 net._ + +LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS, +48 Leicester Square. + + + + +[Illustration: The old man went for a walk and took the bag with him.] + + + +THE OLD MAN'S BAG + + + +By + +T. W. H. CROSLAND + + + +PICTURES BY + +J. R. MONSELL + + + +LONDON: +GRANT RICHARDS +1903 + + + + +ILLUSTRATIONS. + + +THE OLD MAN WENT FOR A WALK _Frontispiece_ + + PAGE + +THE OLD MAN SAID "CHUCK, CHUCK!" 2 + +THE RED POLICEMAN RAN AFTER HIM 7 + +"WHATEVER ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?" 10 + +SHE TOOK THE BAG DOWN 15 + +"BUTTER IS CHEAP TO-DAY" 18 + +"YOU ARE A VERY FOOLISH OLD WOMAN" 23 + +WHO SHOULD STEP IN BUT THE RED POLICEMAN 26 + +"PLEASE MEASURE ME FOR A SOLDIER'S SUIT" 31 + +HE BEGAN TO STRUT ABOUT 42 + +THE OLD WOMAN WAS KNOCKING APPLES OFF A TREE 47 + +BURNT THE PIECES ON THE FIRE 58 + + + + +THE OLD MAN'S BAG. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + + +The old man lived in a wood. He had a wife and a bag. The bag was quite +a large bag. One day the old man went out for a walk. He took the bag +with him. By and by he saw a hen in a field. Now when you see a hen in +a field you say "Chuck, chuck!" The old man said "Chuck, chuck!" And +the hen came to him. So that he caught her by the neck and put her in +his bag. She made a great to-do, but he put her in. + +[Illustration: The old man said "Chuck, chuck!" and the hen came to +him.] + +On his way home, just as he turned a corner, the old man saw a +policeman. The policeman had a red suit. He was one of those policemen +who wear red suits because they are tired of wearing blue. The red +policeman looked very hard at the old man and very hard at his bag. In +fact he looked so very very hard that the old man got frightened and +turned round and ran away. + +Of course the red policeman ran after him. When they had run about five +miles the old man dropped his bag in order that he might run quicker. +The red policeman had made up his mind to catch him; so that he did not +stop to pick up the bag but kept on running after the old man. At +length when they had run about ten miles he caught him. + +[Illustration: The red policeman ran after him.] + +"Now, sir," said the red policeman, "what have you got in that bag?" + +"Nothing," said the old man. + +"Oh, you wicked old person," said the red policeman. "You know +perfectly well that you have a hen in it. But you must come back with +me, and we will soon find out." + +So the red policeman took the old man back to the place where he had +dropped the bag. The bag was there, and the red policeman picked it up +and opened it with great care. But the hen had got away. There was a +big hole in the corner of the bag, and through this the hen had +squeezed herself and run home as fast as ever she could. When the +policeman found that the bag was empty he looked much puzzled. The old +man for his part smiled a great deal. "I told you there was nothing in +it," he said. + +The red policeman said, "Well, I expect I shall have to let you go this +time. BUT MIND YOU DON'T DO IT AGAIN." + +And the old man went home quite cheerfully with his bag under his arm. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + + +When the old man got home to his house in the wood he hung the bag up +tidily on a nail. Then he sat down in a chair and began to laugh. He +laughed for nearly a quarter of an hour by the clock. At length his +wife came in to him from the garden and said, + +"Whatever are you laughing at?" + +[Illustration: "Whatever are you laughing at?"] + +"Oh," replied the old man, holding his sides, "I am so amused!" Then he +went on laughing. He laughed so much indeed that the tears came into +his eyes and he nearly choked. His wife had to pat his back and give +him a drink of water to put him right. + +Then he told her what had happened. How he had put a hen in his bag, +how the red policeman had run after him, how he dropped the bag and let +the policeman catch him, and how when the policeman took him back to +the bag, the hen was gone. + +"Did she open the bag and fly away?" said the old woman. + +"No," said the old man. "She got out through that hole in the corner." + +"Ah," said the old woman, "I must sew up that hole." + +And she took the bag down from its nail and sewed up the hole. For she +was a very neat woman and she did not like to see holes in bags. + +[Illustration: She took the bag down and sewed up the hole.] + + + + +CHAPTER III. + + +The next day was market day. On market day people who have butter or +cheese to sell take it into the market to sell it. And people who have +money and happen to want butter or cheese go into the market to buy it. +The old man's wife had nothing to sell. Neither had she any money. But +she wanted some butter very badly. So she took the old man's bag off +the nail and carried it to market. She walked round the market with the +bag under her arm and looked at all the stalls and enquired how much +the strawberries were a pound; but she did not buy anything because she +had no money. In a little while she came to a stall on which there were +six rolls of fine fresh butter, and in front of them was a card on +which the man who brought the butter to market had written-- + + BUTTER IS CHEAP TO-DAY. + +[Illustration: "Butter is cheap to-day!"] + +"I am glad butter is cheap to-day," said the old woman to herself, and +when the man who had brought the butter to market was not looking she +picked up a roll and dropped it into her bag. Then she ran away as fast +as she could. + +When she got round the corner the red policeman saw her. He shouted +out, "What have you got in that bag?" + +"Nothing," said the old woman, still running. + +But the policeman kept running after her. When they had run about five +miles the old woman dropped the bag, so that she might run quicker. The +policeman, however, had made up his mind to catch her, and when they +had run about ten miles he caught her. + +"Now," he said, "you must come back with me to your bag, and we will +see if there is anything in it." The old man's wife said that she was +sure there was nothing in it. "All right," said the policeman, "but if +you don't mind we will go back and see." So they went back to the bag, +and the policeman opened it with great care. Inside he found the roll +of butter. + +The old man's wife began to cry. "Oh dear, oh dear," she said, "what a +pity it is that I sewed up that hole." + +"Why?" asked the red policeman. + +"Because if I had not sewn up the hole the butter might have got out, +like my husband's hen." + +"You are a very foolish old woman," said the policeman. "Do you not +know that a roll of butter cannot walk like a hen?" + +[Illustration: "You are a very foolish old woman."] + +"Is that really so?" said the old woman. "Well, well. But I have seen +butter run when it was melted." + +"Never mind that," said the red policeman, "you will have to come with +me to prison." + +"I am too busy to go with you just now," said the old woman, "and my +husband wants the butter for his tea. But if you like to call for me in +the morning and the weather is fine I will come with you with +pleasure." + +"You are very polite," said the red policeman. "If you had been rude I +should have made you go with me now. As it is I will call for you in +the morning providing it doesn't rain." + +"Thank you so much," said the old woman. + +And she shook the red policeman warmly by the hand and went off to her +husband. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + + +When she got home the old man was sat in his chair by the fire. She +could see by his face that he was in a bad temper. But she went up to +him and kissed him and said, "Please don't be grumpy, for I have +brought you something very nice for your tea." + +"What is it?" said the old man, "a hen?" + +"No," she said, "people don't have hens for tea, do they?" + +"Perhaps not," said the old man. "But if you had brought a hen she +might have laid an egg, and I could have had that. You know very well +that I am fond of new laid eggs." + +"New laid eggs are all very fine," said the old woman, "but butter is +cheap to-day. I have brought you a beautiful fresh roll." + +The old man smacked his lips. + +While they were having tea the old woman began to laugh very much. + +"What are you laughing at?" said the old man. "Did you meet the red +policeman?" + +"Yes, I did," said the old woman. + +"And did he catch you?" + +"Yes, he did," said the old woman. + +"And he let you go?" + +"Yes, he did," said the old woman. + +"Why?" + +"Because I was polite to him," said the old woman. + +"Well I never," said the old man. + +"But he is coming for me in the morning, providing the weather is +fine," said the old woman. + +The old man sat still in his chair and thought a great deal. + +And by and by he said, "If you had asked the red policeman to tea like +a sensible woman he might have let you off altogether." + +"I shall know better next time," said the old woman. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + + +When the old man and his wife woke up next morning they looked out of +the window and saw that the weather was quite fine. The old man began +to whistle and sing. He always did this when the weather was fine +because he said fine weather always made him feel in such good spirits. +In a little while the old woman began to sing too. Then the old man +stopped. + +"What are you singing for?" he said to the old woman. + +"I feel in such good spirits," the old woman replied. + +"Oh, you do, do you?" said the old man. "You appear to forget that the +red policeman is coming for you." + +"Oh dear, oh dear," said the old woman. "What a bad memory I have to be +sure. Whatever shall I do?" And she burst into tears. + +"There, there," said the old man, "don't cry. We will give him sixpence +when he calls, and ask him to have a piece of bread and butter with jam +on it. Then perhaps he will go away." + +They went downstairs and had breakfast. They had just finished when +there came an awfully loud knock at the door. The old woman went very +pale. + +"It is the red policeman," she said. + +The old man went to open the door. But the old woman pulled him back. + +"You are forgetting the sixpence," she said, "and the piece of bread +and butter with jam on it." + +"Of course, of course," said the old man, and he felt in his pocket for +sixpence while the old woman cut a nice large thick slice of bread and +covered it with butter and jam. + +"Perhaps after all," said the old man, "we had better not open the +door, but hand the policeman the sixpence and the bread and butter with +jam on it through the window." + +So he opened the window a little way and held out the sixpence and the +bread and butter with jam on it to the person outside. + +"Thanks very much," said the person outside. And he put the sixpence in +his pocket and began to eat the bread and butter with jam on it. And +when he had finished eating he knocked again very loudly at the door. + +"Go away," said the old man. "My wife is not coming out with you +to-day." + +"I don't want your wife to come out with me," said the person at the +door; "I have called to look at the gas meter." + +"We haven't got a gas meter now," said the old man, "we burn nothing +but electric light." + +"Many, many thanks," said the person at the door, and he went away. + +"I feel all of a flutter," said the old woman, sinking into a chair. + +"So do I," said the old man. "And he has got my sixpence too." + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + + +In a little while the old woman began to put the breakfast things away. +Afterwards she took up the table-cover and went out into the garden +with it to shake off the bread crumbs. As she stepped out of the door +who should step in but the red policeman. The old woman trembled very +much when she saw him go in, and she shook the table-cover several +times over in order that she might think what to say to the red +policeman. Just then it began to rain. The old woman ran into the house +at once. + +[Illustration: Who should step in but the red policeman.] + +"Good morning, madam," said the red policeman, and he made a nice bow. + +"Good morning, sir," said the old woman. "What, might I ask, brings you +here?" + +"I have called, madam," replied the red policeman, making another bow, +"for the purpose of taking you with me to prison for stealing a roll of +butter." + +"Where is the roll of butter?" said the old woman. + +The policeman looked very hard at the butter dish, but there was no +butter on it. The old man and his wife and the gas-man had eaten it +all. + +"I beg your pardon, I am sure," said the policeman. + +"The idea!" said the old woman. "Besides you said you would not call +this morning unless the weather were fine, and you see for yourself +that it is now raining cats and dogs." + +"I am truly sorry, madam," said the policeman, bowing once more. "When +I come to think of it, I did say that I would not call if it rained. +Pray forgive me. We all make mistakes sometimes, you know." + +"I don't like such mistakes," said the old woman. "Now kindly leave the +house." + +"Oh, please don't turn me out," said the red policeman, "it is raining +very hard indeed, and I might get my feet wet." + +"We should always be kind," said the old woman, "even to policemen, and +as it is raining and I left my umbrella in an omnibus the other day, I +will lend you my sunshade. But please go." + +The old woman put the sunshade into the policeman's hand. He looked at +it very hard. + +"It is a blue one," he said. "It is not fashionable to wear a blue +sunshade with a red suit. Thank you all the same, but I think I will go +without it." + +He went. + +The old man, who had been quietly laughing to himself, danced about +with joy when he saw the policeman leave. Then he ran to the window and +put his head out, and called out after the policeman, "I say. When your +clothes are quite wet enough be sure you come back and have them +dried." + +But the red policeman took no notice of him. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + + +The red policeman got so wet that by the time he reached his house all +the dye had come out of his suit. He felt very angry indeed. + +"I must try not to make mistakes," he said, "sometimes they bring one +into fearful trouble. As my suit is spoilt I think I will give up being +a policeman. A policeman without a suit is no good at all." + +So he went to bed and had hot bricks to his feet and a mustard plaster +on his chest, and sent for the tailor to measure him for a new suit of +clothes. + +When the tailor came the policeman said to him, "I am quite tired of +being a policeman, and I think I should now like to be a soldier. +Please measure me for a soldier's suit. The coat you will make of green +cloth and the trousers must be yellow." + +[Illustration: "Please measure me for a soldier's suit."] + +"But," said the tailor, "soldiers wear scarlet coats and blue +trousers." + +"That is just the point," said the policeman. "I don't want to be like +all the others. If I did I should go in for khaki. Just you do what I +tell you, and make me a green coat and yellow trousers at once." + +The tailor said, "Yes, sir," and went away. + +In a few days he called again, bringing with him a yellow coat and +green trousers. The policeman could have cried with disappointment. + +"Didn't I tell you quite plainly that I wanted a green coat and yellow +trousers?" + +"I am truly sorry, sir," said the tailor, "but as you no doubt know, +the best of us make mistakes sometimes." + +"There is something in that," said the policeman, "and if the suit fits +me I will forgive you." + +Then he went into his dressing-room and put on the yellow coat and the +green trousers. They fitted him beautifully. So that he forgave the +tailor, and sent round to him to say that he would try to pay his bill +when he got some money. + +[Illustration: He began to strut about in his new clothes.] + +After looking at himself a good deal in the mirror the policeman went +out into the street and began to strut about in his new clothes. "This +is much better than being a policeman," he said, "a policeman has +little to do, but a soldier has nothing to do till he is sent for to +fight. By the way I must go and buy a sword, and then I will go up to +the old man's house and let him see me in my new clothes. Perhaps he +will give me two halfpennies to put in the pockets." + +He bought his sword at the toy shop and went straight to the old man's +house. When he got there the old woman was in the garden knocking +apples off a tree with a clothes prop. No sooner did she see the +policeman in his yellow coat and green trousers than she ran screaming +into the house, and hid herself under the bed. + +[Illustration: The old woman was knocking apples off a tree.] + +But when the old man saw him he shouted, "Hurrah, hurrah, the red +policeman has turned soldier. Now we needn't be afraid of him any +more." + +And he called upstairs to his wife, "Come down at once and get me my +bag." + +The old woman came downstairs quickly. She took down the bag from its +nail and handed it to her husband. "Run," she said, "as hard as you +can, and bring me a hen and anything else nice that takes your fancy. +Bags were made to put things in. And the red policeman--the soldier, +that is to say--will stay to dinner." + +The soldier sat down in the chair and lit his pipe, and the old man +went out with the bag. Very soon he returned with two hens, a fat duck, +several rolls of butter, a large piece of bacon, some cabbages, some +ice cream, and two pots of marmalade. + +The old woman cooked everything but the ice cream and the marmalade, +and they had a very good dinner indeed. + +"This is much better than being a policeman," said the soldier when +they had finished. + +"I should just think it was," said the old man. + +"And so should I," said the old woman. + +"Now I must wish you both good evening," said the soldier, "for I hear +the bugle calling." + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + + +When a soldier hears the bugle calling he is bound to go even if he +would like to have stayed for supper. That is why the soldier went. + +"I am glad I am not a soldier," said the old man, "because I do not +have to go when the bugle calls." + +"No," said the old woman, "but you have to go when I tell you, which is +pretty much the same thing." + +"Perhaps it is," said the old man. + +"And I think," said the old woman, "that it might be just as well for +you to go out this evening with the bag and get a few nice little +things for breakfast and dinner to-morrow. For when you come to think +of it there is no reason why the soldier should not take it into his +head to be a red policeman again, and if he did he would run after us +when he saw us with the bag. So that we had better get what we want +before he changes his mind." + +"A very good idea, my dear," said the old man, "give me the bag and I +will go out at once." + +The old woman gave him the bag and off he went. + +He was away a very long time. Indeed he did not get back till nearly +midnight. When he set the bag down on the table the old woman could see +that he had got a good many things, because the bag bulged so. + +"How good of you," she said. "Now show me what you have got." + +Then the old man opened the bag. First he pulled out a pretty little +kitten with her mother, an old grey cat. + +"Very nice," said the old woman, "but we can't cook them." + +"You cooked the hens," said the old man. + +Then he pulled out a pillow case full of hay. + +"Quite nice," said the old woman, "but we can't cook it." + +"You cooked the cabbages," said the old man. + +Then he pulled out a box full of pieces of broken glass. + +"Beautiful!" said the old woman, "but we can't eat it." + +"You ate the marmalade fast enough," said the old man. + +Then the old woman said, "If you go on talking so foolishly I shall be +very cross. Turn that cat and her kitten out at once, burn the hay, and +throw the broken glass out of the window." + +"And what shall I do with the bag?" said the old man. + +"You can do just as you please with the bag," said the old woman; "I am +going to bed." + +And off she went. + +The old man opened the door and turned out the cat and her kitten. Then +he burnt the hay a little bit at a time on the fire, and threw the +broken glass out of the window. + +After doing this he sat down in his chair to think. "What shall I do +with the bag?" he said to himself. "My wife said I might do what I +pleased with it. Perhaps I had better burn it." + +So he cut it in pieces with a knife, and burnt the pieces on the fire. + +[Illustration: Burnt the pieces on the fire.] + +In the morning when the old woman came downstairs to breakfast she +looked on the nail for the bag, but of course it was not there. + +"What have you done with the bag?" she called to the old man. + +"I have burnt it," said the old man. + +"Why did you burn it?" said the old woman. + +"Guess," said the old man. + +The old woman guessed and guessed and guessed and guessed and guessed. + +But she could not guess right, and the old man had to keep on saying, +"Guess again, guess again, guess again." + +Now why did the old man burn his bag? + +You must get your Mamma to tell you. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Man's Bag, by T. W. H. 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