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Updated: June 29, 2025
Amenda, who was town-bred, mistook him at first for one of those cheap alarm clocks, and wondered who was winding him up, and why they went on doing it all night; and, above all, why they didn't oil him. He would begin his unhallowed performance about dusk, just as every respectable bird was preparing to settle down for the night.
We stared after the procession until it had turned the corner, and then we stared at each other. "'Oh, it's impossible, said Ethelbertha to me. "'But that was my hat, I said to Ethelbertha. "The moment we reached home Ethelbertha looked for Amenda, and I looked for my hat. Neither was to be found. "Nine o'clock struck, ten o'clock struck.
As I explained at the commencement, it was told to me by Ethelbertha, who had it from Amenda, who got it from the char-woman, and exaggerations may have crept into it. The following, however, were incidents that came under my own personal observation.
When he could find nothing else to damage, he would go out of his way to upset himself. He could not be sure of stepping from his own punt on to the boat with safety. As often as not, he would catch his foot in the chain or the punt-pole, and arrive on his chest. Amenda used to condole with him.
"Oh yes," said Amenda, "I loved him right enough, but it's no good loving a man that wants you to live on sausages that keep you awake all night." "But does he want you to live on sausages?" persisted Ethelbertha. "Oh, he doesn't say anything about it," explained Amenda; "but you know what it is, mum, when you marry a pork butcher; you're expected to eat what's left over.
I only hope you never may. "We kept a careful watch over Amenda during the remainder of our stay at Folkestone, and an anxious time we had of it. Every day some regiment or other would march through the town, and at the first sound of its music Amenda would become restless and excited.
As I explained at the commencement, it was told to me by Ethelbertha, who had it from Amenda, who got it from the charwoman, and exaggerations may have crept into it. The following, however, were incidents that came under my own personal observation.
"'I know, mum, admitted Amenda, 'I found it there myself when the music stopped. "Ethelbertha looked her inquiries. Amenda filled a saucepan with water, and then replied to them. "'I'm a disgrace to a decent household, she said; 'no mistress who respected herself would keep me a moment. I ought to be put on the doorstep with my box and a month's wages.
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