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David Maxwell can finish the job you had in hand, speakin' of that, does any one know where David is just now?" "He's down at the bottom of a gasometer," answered Joe; "leastwise he was there this afternoon an' a dirty place it is." "A bad-smellin' job that, I should think," observed Rooney. "Well, it ain't a sweet-smellin' one," returned Joe. "He's an adventurous man is David.
When Captain Balbo learned that Paul had come down after seashells and curiosities, he was delighted and invited the boy to come aboard. "O'im in the same line meself. But instead of lookin' afther dirthy, bad-smellin' sea shells, it's afther the shells of ould Vessels Oi am." Paul gladly promised to go aboard that afternoon.
He tears down mouldy walls and lets the sunshine in. Pullin' up what bad-smellin' weeds he can in the gardens of the poor, and transplantin' some of the overcrowded posy beds of the rich into the bare sile, makin' 'em both look better and do better. I set store by him.
The long hair was left on, as a protection against the rocks of the river, and the seams were filled and plastered with bear's grease. "It's a mighty bad-smellin' thing," remarked Sweeny. "An who's goin' to back it over the portages?" "Robinson Crusoe!" exclaimed Glover. "I never thought of that. Wal, let's see.
David Maxwell is one of the lucky ones for the most part, and even when luck fails, he never comes by any loss, for he's a hard-workin' man, an' keeps a tight hold of whatever he makes, whether by luck or by labour." "But what about the bad-smellin' job he's got on hand just now?" asked Rooney. "Why, he's repairin' the bottom of a gas tank.
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