I ran into Miss Bryant, for six years she had been thinking of getting a car.

"I'll have to get that tree cut" she replied. It was a lovely tree on the roadside...

"Well if you moved your gate a little this way you could still have the tree, couldn't you?" That glassy expression which leaves one in no doubt about the reactions to an idea on the side of beauty closed the subject most effectively. ...In two days it was gone, together with three pounds of her hard cash. A week later the Electricity Commission came along and planted a pole in the exact spot!