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"The silence was too painful to last. "'Captain McPeek is an interesting man, I said. I spoke more loudly than I intended. I may have been nervous. "'Yes, said Daisy Holroyd, 'but he has a most singular hotel clerk. "'You mean Mr. Frisby? "'I do. "'Yes, I admitted, 'Mr. Frisby is queer. He was once a bill-poster. "'I know it! exclaimed Daisy Holroyd, with some heat.
I am not telling Charity Stover's story, so I will only add that the bill-poster was mistaken in the nature of his paste, and greatly undervalued its adhesive properties. The temper of Prudence, the youngest sister, now Mrs.
By the morning when the bill-poster came and affixed the notice of sale, Minden Cottage stood dismantled a melancholy shell, inhabited only by memories for us, and for our country neighbours by mysterious ghostly terrors. This was one of the many grounds on which we agreed that the Lord Chancellor had acted foolishly in insisting upon a public auction.
As driver of the chariot, I endure the constant apprehension of wrecking my company by the wayside. As assistant carpenter, when we can not find a stage it is my task to erect one. As bill-poster and license-procurer, treasurer and stage manager, my time is not so taken up, sir, as to preclude my going on and assuming a character."
As I walked on the quay where the crowds were strolling, looking out upon the misty sea, at the donkeys on the beach, and at the fishing-smacks huddled under the far-reaching pier, I saw my name in huge letters borne on the banner of a bill-poster, and all the people stopping to read as they wound in and out among them.
Hans Anderson, the son of a poor shoemaker, taught in a charity school at the dawn of puberty; vividly animated Bible stories from pictures painted on the wall; was dreamy and absent-minded; told continued stories to his mates; at confirmation vowed he would be famous and finally, at fourteen, left home for Copenhagen, where he was violently stage-struck and worked his way from friendship with the bill-poster to the stage as page, shepherd, etc.; called on a famous dancer, who scorned him, and then, feeling that he had no one but God to depend on, prayed earnestly and often.
And he went on to repeat for the thousandth time that when he was ugly he was a bad man. Whereupon the other loungers in Couch's saloon, "Honesty Tom Yerkes," the hauler, Sam Hatch, the bill-poster, and the rest, agreed that a man's manner of governing his household was his own business. Tobit McStenger had his word to say upon all village topics.
Come along, and you shall learn of the duties of manager, bill-poster, press-agent and license-procurer." An hour or so later found the two walking down the road at a brisk pace, soon leaving the tavern behind them and beginning to descend a hill that commanded a view to eastward. "How do you advertise your performances?" asked the younger man, opening the conversation.
This was of great service to him, as it enabled him to calculate his own share of the profits. The aggregate receipts were one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents. Deducting bills paid, viz.: Rent of hall........................ $5.00 Printing, etc........................ 5.00 Bill-poster......................... 1.00 Total...........................$11.00
At that time he was also an itinerant bill-poster and had his lodgings at Maxy Schaffer's Railroad Hotel hard by the B. & O. tracks. Mr. Shrimplin was five feet three, and narrow chested. A drooping flaxen mustache shaded a sloping chin and a loose under lip, while a pair of pale eyes looked sadly out upon the world from the shadow of a hooked nose. Mr. Joe Montgomery, Mrs.
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