Ever since the success achieved by Bindle,Herbert Jenkins has been urged to writegiving Mrs. Bindle's point of view. Thisbook is the result.

Among other things, it narrates howMrs. Bindle caught a chill, how a nephewwas born to her and what effect it hadupon her outlook.

It tells how she encountered a bull, andwhat happened to the man who endeavouredto take forcible possession of her home.

She is shown as breaking a strike byprecipitating a lock-out, burning incense toher brother-in-law, Mr. Hearty, and refusingthe armistice that was offered.

One chapter tells of her relations withher neighbours. Another deals with amusical evening she planned, and yet athird of how she caught a chill and was ingreat fear of heaven.