common place crumbs

in speaking with headmistriss pratt she calls him:
Mr. Humbird
Dr. Humburg
Mr. Humberson
Dr. Hummer
and Dorothy Hummerson.


"My west-door neighbor who might have been a businessman or a college teacher, or both, would speak to me once in a while as he barbered some late garden blooms or watered his car, or, at a later date, defrosted his driveway."