The Depot Master

"Mr. Simeon Phinney emerged from the side door of his residence and paused a moment to light his pipe in the lee of the lilac bushes. Mr. Phinney was a man of various and sundry occupations, and his sign, nailed to the big silver-leaf in the front yard, enumerated a few of them. "Carpenter, Well Driver, Building Mover, Cranberry Bogs Seen to with Care and Dispatch, etc., etc.,"; so read the sign. The house was situated in "Phinney's Lane,"; the crooked little byway off "Cross Street,"; between the "Shore Road"; at the foot of the slope and the "Hill Boulevard"; - formerly "Higgins's Roost"; - at the top."