I cannot abide those spirits. Standish scoffs at my dread with his jaunty cap and a twinkle in his mischevious eye as i beat the pantry door with my week-day cane..."in there! for he is in there Standish!" But I am not angered nor afraid, for I trust my Standish must have a surprise for his lady in store. or in the pantry as it were! And that ( Read more... )

Hello my electronic friends ( Read more... )

You're winning, Mr Tin, you're winning! To think, the factory may have had you as a common shoeshine brigand! And now, how proud you must be ( Read more... )

Today was quite dreary. I suppose a divulgence should be in order, and that would be that Standish quite spoilt bonnet-day last-eve. He hath been shunned to the pantry, and raps but thrice on the pantry-door for Mr. Tin to fetch my supper and tea, oh, poor Mr. Tin! Even a mechanical marvel such as himself cannot be meant to do the work of ( Read more... )

It's bonnet day, bonnet day! the first sunny bonnet-day of the spring! Standish shall place bonnets on the heads of all on the estate grounds! Mr. Tin shall wear a bonnet, a special bonnet Standish has sent-out for the seamstress to sew, and Standish shall wear a bonnet as well! There shall be tea and cake on the veranda at noon, and all ( Read more... )

Mr. Tin has finally sought to bring the tele-gram machine back from the scientists who have made it so that Standish's transcriptions of my journals shall be transmitted across the seas! Finally, I shall be able to share with an audience of a size befitting my recollections and diary. oh, what fun we shall all have! And Standish must transcribe ( Read more... )