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Updated: June 29, 2025
Where did you look?" "In our garden, sir. Where you told me." "Whereabouts in the garden?" chimed in Amenda, who happened to be standing by; "under the gooseberry bushes?" "Yees everywhere." That is what he had done: he had taken the stable lantern and searched the garden for it. But the day when he broke even his own record for foolishness happened about three weeks later.
"No, mum," said Amenda, "one always hopes one will never need to, I'm sure, but it's just as well to be prepared. I knew a girl, when I was in service at Hastings, that loved a printer, and they were both going to commit suicide because her parents didn't want 'em to marry; and now he costs her four shillings a month regular in summonses. It's no good shutting one's eyes to things, mum."
During the first journey the 'bus conductor stared at Amenda; during the second he talked to her, during the third he gave her a cocoanut, during the fourth he proposed to her, and was promptly accepted. After that, Amenda was enabled to visit her cheesemonger without expense. He was a quaint character himself, was this 'bus conductor. I often rode with him to Fleet Street.
But the most shamefully mercenary engagement that I think Amenda ever entered into, was one with a 'bus conductor. We were living in the north of London then, and she had a young man, a cheesemonger, who kept a shop in Lupus Street, Chelsea. He could not come up to her because of the shop, so once a week she used to go down to him.
"I don't see how any girl could as hadn't the digestion of an ostrich." Ethelbertha looked puzzled. "But what has digestion got to do with it?" she asked. "A pretty good deal, mum," answered Amenda, "when you're thinking of marrying a man as can't make a sausage fit to eat."
That he never succeeded in staving the houseboat in speaks highly for the man who built her. One day he came down upon us with a tremendous crash. Amenda was walking along the passage at the moment, and the result to her was that she received a violent blow first on the left side of her head and then on the right.
"'You were walking with a soldier's arm around your waist when we passed you, Amenda? she observed interrogatively. "'I know, mum, admitted Amenda, 'I found it there myself when the music stopped. "Ethelbertha looked her enquiries. Amenda filled a saucepan with water, and then replied to them.
'But surely this is something altogether new, Amenda, she said; 'you must have often met soldiers when you've been out in London? "'Oh yes, one or two at a time, walking about anyhow, I can stand that all right. It's when there's a lot of them with a band that I lose my head. "'You don't know what it's like, mum, she added, noticing Ethelbertha's puzzled expression; 'you've never had it.
"You see, Amenda," explained Ethelbertha apologetically, "we shall really live outside." "Yes, mum," answered Amenda, "I should say that would be the best place to do it."
"I asked you, Amenda," I said reproachfully, "to tell me the time about ten minutes ago." "Oh, did you?" she called back pleasantly. "I beg your pardon. I thought you asked me if I knew it it's half-past four." Ethelbertha inquired to return to our fire if she had tried lighting it again. "Oh yes, mum," answered the girl. "I've tried four times."
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