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A speechification of three hours, during which every member of the committee is heard in his turn, helps them to no other expedient than that of a subscription for the widows, and a renewed agitation, by means of the press and the bill-sticker, to re-establish the funds by the collection of fresh fees and entrance-money.
They were placarded on all the walls too, though not with complete success, for an illiterate person having undertaken this office during the indisposition of the regular bill-sticker, a part were posted sideways, and the remainder upside down.
The cathedrals and monuments are generally, as we have said, in wonderful preservation, but they are desecrated without remorse; on every side of them, and, indeed, upon them, are staring advertisements of 'magazines, dedicated 'au bon diable, 'au petit diable, or to some other presiding genius; of 'magasins les plus vastes du monde, and of 'loteries impériales de France; whichever way we turn, we cannot get rid of these staring affiches; even upon the 'footsteps of the Conqueror' the bill-sticker seems master of the situation.
'The facts of bill-sticking, pursued His Majesty, in a benignant manner, 'as known to myself, air as following. When my father was Engineer, Beadle, and Bill-Sticker to the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, he employed women to post bills for him. He employed women to post bills at the time of the riots of London.
They were pretty well convinced that Riccabocca was dishonest, and quietly sent for those to whom the "combination" was indebted: namely, the printer and publisher of the Daily Bulletin, the agent of the music-hall, and the bill-sticker who had posted notices of the entertainment. These parties arrived while Philip was at breakfast. "Gentlemen," said the landlord, "the boy is at breakfast.
'Well, replied the King, 'I an't a stranger, I assure you, to black eyes; a bill-sticker ought to know how to handle his fists a bit. As to that row I have mentioned, that grew out of competition, conducted in an uncompromising spirit.
We call the bill-sticker 'Paste-pot, and the fisherman 'Crab. The waiter is called 'Thomas' in the café, but when a letter comes for him it is in another name. Then, on the second floor by the way, Marie, who is it that lives on the second floor?" Edith with difficulty restrained her excitement.
He made some allusion, also, to an inferior potentate, called 'Turkey-legs; but I did not understand that this gentleman was invested with much power. I rather inferred that he derived his title from some peculiarity of gait, and that it was of an honorary character. 'My father, pursued the King of the Bill-Stickers, 'was Engineer, Beadle, and Bill-Sticker to the parish of St.
The bill-sticker pushed a piece of bacon into a dry mouth; sat with goggling eyes. The hoarding continued: "I have here this person's reference. It is good." "Down shot the piece of bacon; convulsively bolted like Miss Porter's sweet. "Good!" cried George. "I said good. For faulty articulation I apologise." "I know, I heard. I meant that I am pleased." "Strive to express the meaning.
Baron Martin knew Grimston as well as I did, and believed in him as much. "Who is this?" asked the Judge. "Another bill-sticker, my lord." Grimston gave his evidence, and was severely cross-examined by my friend, J. Fitzjames Stephen. He fully and satisfactorily explained every one of the questioned items, evidently to the satisfaction of Martin, who dismissed the petition, and thus Mr.
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