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'Vunce upon a time there wos a young hairdresser as opened a wery smart little shop vith four wax dummies in the winder, two gen'lmen and two ladies the gen'lmen vith blue dots for their beards, wery large viskers, oudacious heads of hair, uncommon clear eyes, and nostrils of amazin' pinkness; the ladies vith their heads o' one side, their right forefingers on their lips, and their forms deweloped beautiful, in vich last respect they had the adwantage over the gen'lmen, as wasn't allowed but wery little shoulder, and terminated rayther abrupt in fancy drapery.
As the law now stands, there is no public authority to inwestigate the cause o' fires in London; well, wot's the consikence, w'y, that there are regular gangs of scoundrels who make it their business to arrange fires for their own adwantage."
So now they has two ropes, 'bout six foot apart, and three from the floor, which goes right down the room; and the beds are made of slips of coarse sacking, stretched across 'em. 'Well, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Well, said Mr. Weller, 'the adwantage o' the plan's hobvious. At six o'clock every mornin' they let's go the ropes at one end, and down falls the lodgers.
"I fancies, Tom Bowlin', I hed th' adwantage on yer onst, an' placed yer too, that time I cut yer down in yer hammick aboard the Saint Vincent, hey, old ship?" It was Larrikins. Needless to say how glad I was to meet him again, or what yarns we had to tell each other of what had happened to us respectively since last we met.
They get their goods at their door; I must haf a leetle adwantage to cover the freight. The old man has this so firmly fixed in his head that we have to humor him by giving him 'a leetle adwantage." "Some men think that in giving an order all they need to do is to state their own terms and time, and every one will dance to their tune.
But it has bin hard on me to see the door open, as it were, an' not take adwantage of it. Howsever, it's all over now, an' I ax yer parding. I'll not mutiny again.
A reg'lar coachman's a sort o' con-nectin' link betwixt singleness and matrimony, and every practicable man knows it. 'Wot! You mean, they're gen'ral favorites, and nobody takes adwantage on 'em, p'raps? said Sam. His father nodded. 'How it ever come to that 'ere pass, resumed the parent Weller, 'I can't say.
Every buyer wants 'a leetle adwantage, and, like a Chicago man that the boys tell of, tells you your price is 'stereotyped' unless you cut down below every one else. So dealers try low prices and try gifts, but by and by they will have to sell on a rising market, and things will change." "You think prices will go up?" "They must go up, and it is right that they should.
I always laugh over a customer of mine in Cincinnati who always insists he must have 'a leetle adwantage. The boys on the road like Old Pap and laugh over his 'leetle adwantage. He says: 'I must haf a leetle adwantage ofer New York and Philadelphy. They ton't pay no freight.
"You have the adwantage of me, sir," said he, fidgeting back as he spoke, and eyeing Mr. Jorrocks with unmeasured surprise "Yet stay if I'm not deceived it's Mr.