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Updated: June 13, 2025
The bill-posting people had pasted a copy of it on a blank wall opposite; the three men, open-mouthed and wide-eyed, gathered round and read. Crood grew purple with anger. "Impudence!" he exclaimed at last. "Sheer brazen impudence! Him a stranger! Take up his cousin's work, will he? And what's he mean by saying that he's now a Hathelsborough man?"
But this method of carrying on the campaign was soon brought into disrepute, owing to the fact that certain juveniles, seeing in this new idea of bill-posting a fresh field for practical joking, began to adorn the walls of the "grub-room," and other spaces which did not often come under the eye of a master, with placards exhibiting inscriptions which had no bearing on the elections such irrelevant remarks as, "nooks Two wants kicking !" or, "Lost-my wits.
Putting on renewed speed, he never halted until they had covered about four miles. Here was a little cluster of houses. He stopped the car. "Come with me, quick," he directed his friends, entering the car and taking up Midget in his arms. Andy had been over this territory the day previous doing some exigency bill-posting service. He led the way down a quiet street.
From whatever part of the city Bog came home after a bill-posting expedition, he invariably made a circuit past Miss Pillbody's school, keeping the other side of the street always, and never looking at the house.
His most constant companion was Fabian Osterhaut, who was the common property of both towns, doing a little of everything for a living, from bill-posting to the solicitation of an insurance agent.
I had a partner who at one time was in the bill-posting profession it is a profession now, isn't it?" Handy smiled. "Well, he had a bit of money not a great deal, and he invested in the line of publicity. Well, he was called away suddenly. He didn't exactly die but that's of no consequence, and his assets dropped into my hands for safe-keeping.
'He ruins landscapes whenever he has an opportunity. Do you know that he has a passion for bill-posting? He has; he posts bills for the pure pleasure of it, just as you play golf, or tennis, or squash. "'But he's a hotel clerk now, I said; 'nobody employs him to post bills. "'I know it! He does it all by himself for the pure pleasure of it.
He looked sideways and kind o' sheepish at the house as he passed. I've a notion that he was a lover of Pet's, too." "He's the man, or boy, for us!" cried Tiffles. "Is in the bill-posting business, and knows the town better than I do, if anything. A shrewd fellow, judging from his looks; and, if he's in love with Miss Minford, then he's sure never to tire of hunting her up.
All day long the little ring-necks whistled from the shore. The plover answered them from distant, lonely inland pools. The great white gulls drifted like feathers upon the sea. "One morning towards the end of the week, I, strolling along the dunes, came upon Frisby. He was bill-posting. I caught him red-handed. "'This, said I, 'must stop. Do you understand, Mr. Frisby?
On the stage he had remained for another eighteen months; had played all roles, from "Romeo" to "Paul Pry," had helped to paint the scenery, had assisted in the bill-posting. The latter, so he told me, he had found one of the most difficult of accomplishments, the paste-laden poster having an innate tendency to recoil upon the amateur's own head, and to stick there.
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