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Excerpt from Wayside It gratified his insignificant mind to know that the entire population was gathered on the store verandah awaiting his arrival, and it was said that on one occasion, when he had been before his time, he had waited round the bend in the road until the people arrived at the store. There was. Only one person in Wayside he was really afraid of. That was Priscilla Trent. Miss Trent had been postmistress in the town ship for over thirty years, and had become quite uncanny in her knowledge of other people's affairs, simply by handling their correspondence. Those same letters had a habit of not arriving at the proper time if their owners happened to be at war with Priscilla. It must not be supposed that she was a bad woman, for She was honest as the day in her business dealings, and generous to a fault, but her besetting sin was curiosity Then, too, she was the connecting link with the commercial world. Her stock of prints and dress materials was really extraordinary, and her method of disposing of them astonishing. She would fix the anxious buyer with her mild grey eyes, and assure her that pink print dresses with purple bouquets scattered broadcast, were all the rage in Sydney, and though they knew she had never left Wayside for forty years, they believed her - and bought the stuff. 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.