[Gutenberg 54491] • More "Short Sixes"

Excerpt from The Stories of H. C. Bunner: More "Short Sixes"; The Runaway Browns; A Story of Small Stories

In Spite of his disappointment, he had to admit, as he walked around the place in the early twilight, that it was just what he had bargained for. The situation, the dimensions, the exposure, were all exactly what had been stipulated. About its age there could be no question. Internally, its irregularity - indeed, its utter failure to conform to any known rules of domestic architecture surpassed Mr. Brimmington's wildest expecta tions. It had stairs eighteen inches wide; it had rooms of strange shapes and sizes; it had strange, shallow cupboards in strange places; it had no hallways; its windows were of odd design, and whoso wanted variety in floors could find it there. And along the main wall of Mr. Brimmington's study there ran a structure some three feet and a half high and nearly as deep, which Mr. Skin ner confidently assured him was used in old times as a wall-bench or a dresser, indifferently. You might think, said Mr. Skinner, that all that space inside there was jest wasted; but it ain't so. Them seats is jest filled up inside with braces so's that you can set on them good and solid. And then Mr. Skinner proudly called attention to the two coats of gray paint spread over the entire side of the house, walls, ceilings and woodwork, blending the original portions and the Skinner restorations in one harmonious, homogeneous whole.

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