Heoftenwentto buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.
Often criticised for failing to convert half-centuries into hundreds, he for once went on to make a big score, though was left to ponder his failure to do so during the Ashes.