United States or Pakistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But spring came, yet no employment was in sight. His sole earnings had been the coppers thrown to him as he stood singing in the snow covered streets, during the long cold winter. Now it was spring, and hope rose within him. He had been taught to have simple faith in God, and felt sure that in some way his needs would be met. At last the tide turned slightly.
This raft, when completed, was a fairly roomy affair, affording space enough to stow away some thirty people, together with a good supply of provisions and water, which we now proceeded to get up from below and stow; the cook, meanwhile, industriously boiling as much beef and pork as he could crowd into his coppers.
On the other side are three sledgehammers with the royal crown on each hammer, and around them either the word "Connecticut," or the legend, "I am a good copper," with the date 1737. A third kind has one broadaxe and the legend, "I cut my way through." There is a specimen of each of the three kinds of Granby coppers in the Connecticut State Library at Hartford.
Husband, wife and a girl of seven engaged in making coarse paper flowers of lurid hue. They had been in that room for six months; they sold the paper flowers in the streets, but being summer time they did not sell many. At Christmas time people bought them for decorations; sometimes people gave the girl coppers, but did not take the flowers from her.
It had a peculiarity of its own which these same critics also objected to it nearly always ended in a yawn. But Leo heard none of these ill-natured remarks, and, if he had, would not have minded them any more than he did the burs which clung to his garments as he rambled through the woods. Poor fellow! he would gladly have shared his coppers with a beggar, but he had none to share.
Bill slouched up to the tent and entered. When he beheld the magnificent proportions of Robert he said but little, "Strike me pink!" were the only words the children could afterwards remember, but he produced fifteen shillings, mainly in sixpences and coppers, and handed it to Robert. "We'll fix up about what you're to draw when the show's over to-night," he said with hoarse heartiness.
"Make up a purse for him," says a gentleman, passing round his hat. Coppers, and shillings, and quarters, and half dollars flow into the hat, and finally a dollar bill. "There," said the gentleman, smiling, "now take that home to your mother, my boy." "My mother is dead," sobbed the child. "Pass round the hat again," said the gentleman a tear in his eye.
But, even if I was able to stand flogging, all the difference it would make to me, would be to make me keep a sharper eye after the 'coppers. Small game would not then tempt me so much. I should look after larger stakes, go in at heavier jobs, and calculate well my chances of escape before going to work.
J 's gone to the Commons to Jenner swears she'll have a diworce, a mensa et thorax, I think she calls it wish she may get it sick of hearing her talk about it Jenner's the only man wot puts up with her, and that's because he gets his fees. Batsay, my dear! you may damp another towel, and then get me something to cool my coppers all in a glow, I declare complete fever.
She had gone as far south as 41 degrees but saw not a whale, and had met with tremendously bad weather, in which she had shipped a sea that had set her boiling coppers afloat and had nearly carried them overboard. November 22d. The 'William and Anne', Captain Buncker, returned after having been more than three weeks out, and putting into Broken Bay.
Word Of The Day