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There was a little shopping to do as an occasional diversion. Most of the visitors to the townships found more pleasure in spending their surplus cash than they had known in making it. They had saved it up to spend, and in spending it they enjoyed themselves.
In little country towns the centres of interest are the pub and the store. Most travellers and holiday-makers have some business to do at one or both, especially after a long journey; and very often the pub and the store depend largely for custom on the moving population. While the old man sometimes has a lot of business to engage him at the pub, his wife has a jamboree among the laces and ribbons and the new season's hats at the "general store."