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I then got a lock-smith to make me a bit and a pair of spurs after a pattern that I drew for him, and when all these things were completed I presented them to the king and showed him how to use them. When I had saddled one of his horses he mounted it and rode about quite delighted with the novelty, and to show his gratitude he rewarded me with large gifts.
"Do you know my pop's Nathaniel Puntz, the director?" "You are a credit to him, Absalom. By the way, will you take a message to him from me? Tell him, please, that the lock on the school-room door is broken, and I'd be greatly obliged if he would send up a lock-smith to mend it." Absalom looked discouraged. A Harvard graduate was, manifestly, a freak of nature invulnerable at all points.
They got a lock-smith for the props, an iron-worker for the fasteners, and a carpenter for the rests. The forms of the trees were designed beforehand. Pieces of lath on the wall represented candelabra.
He might have been anything from a picture-frame maker to a lock-smith; an employer of labour in a small way.
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