Excerpt from The Matador of the Five Towns: And Other Stories Robert Brindley drew a time-table from his breast pocket with the rapid gesture Of habit. All men of busi ness in the Five Towns seem to carry that time-table in their breast-pockets. Then be examined his watch carefully. You'll have time to dress up your progeny and catch the It makes the connection at Knype for Axe. The two little boys, aged perhaps four and six, who had been ladling the messy contents of specially deep plates on to their bibs, dropped their spoons and began to babble about grea' - granny, and one Of them insisted several times that he must wear his new gaiters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.