Bio
When the Little Boy first went to the Old Tobacco Shop, he
stood a long while before going in, to look at the wooden figure
which stood beside the door.
His father was sitting at home in his carpet-slippers, waiting
for tobacco for his pipe, but when the Little Boy saw the
wooden figure he forgot all about hurrying,—"Now don't be
long," his mother had said, and his father had said "Hurry
back,"—but he forgot all about hurrying, and stood and looked
at the wooden figure a long time: a little hunchbacked man,
not so very much taller than himself, on a low wooden box,
holding out in one hand a packet of black wooden cigars. His
back was terribly humped up between his shoulders, his face
was square and bony, if wood can be said to be bony, he was
bareheaded and bald-headed, he had a wide mouth, and his
high nose curved down over it and his pointed chin curved up
under it; and his breast stuck out in front almost as much as
his shoulders stuck out behind.William Bowen Books
The Old Tobacco Shop
William Bowen