I like doing odd jobs around the house.

Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never, he says, but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life, he says, and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat.

She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.”

COURT THROWS BOOK AT HIM: ... Thomas Pasco, beggar, got everything the statutes would permit Judge Binkle to give him yesterday afternoon.