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The Diary of a Nobody
·
George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith
109
APRIL
17.—
No
water
in
our
cistern
again.
Sent
for
Putley,
who
said
he
would
soon
remedy
that,
the
cistern
being
zinc.
APRIL
18.—
Water
all
right
again
in
the
cistern.
Mrs.
James,
of
Sutton,
called
in
the
afternoon.
She
and
Carrie
draped
the
mantelpiece
in
the
drawing-room,
and
put
little
toy
spiders,
frogs
and
beetles
all
over
it,
as
Mrs.
James
says
it’s
quite
the
fashion.
It
was
Mrs.
James’
suggestion,
and
of
course
Carrie
always
does
what
Mrs.
James
suggests.
For
my
part,
I
preferred
the
mantelpiece
as
it
was;
but
there,
I’m
a
plain
man,
and
don’t
pretend
to
be
in
the
fashion.
APRIL
19.—
Our
next-door
neighbour,
Mr.
Griffin,
called,
and
in
a
rather
offensive
tone
accused
me,
or
“someone,”
of
boring
a
hole
in
his
cistern
and
letting
out
his
water
to
supply
our
cistern,
which
adjoined
his.
He
said
he
should
have
his
repaired,
and
send
us
in
the
bill.
APRIL
20.—
Cummings
called,
hobbling
in
with
a
stick,
saying
he
had
been
on
his
back
for
a
week.
It
appears
he
was
trying
to
shut
his
bedroom
door,
which
is
situated
just
at
the
top
of
the
staircase,
and
unknown
to
him
a
piece
of
cork
the
dog
had
been
playing
with
had
got
between
the
door,
and
prevented
it
shutting;
and
in
pulling
the
door
hard,
to
give
it
an
extra
slam,
the
handle
came
off
in
his
hands,
and
he
fell
backwards
downstairs.
On
hearing
this,
Lupin
suddenly
jumped
up
from
the
couch
and
rushed
out
of
the
room
sideways.
Cummings
looked
very
indignant,
and
remarked
it
was
very
poor
fun
a
man
nearly
breaking
his
back;
and
though
I
had
my
suspicions
that
Lupin
was
laughing,
I
assured
Cummings
that
he
had
only
run
out
to
open
the
door
to
a
friend
he
expected.
Cummings
said
this
was
the
second
time
he
had
been
laid
up,
and
we
had
never
sent
to
inquire.
I
said
I
knew
nothing
about
it.
Cummings
said:
“It
was
mentioned
in
the
Bicycle
News.”
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