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The text he had chosen was: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." He made no allusion to the paper which the rain was busy washing off the door of the chapel; nor did he wish to remind the people that this was the very day foreseen by the bill-sticking prophet, as appointed for the advent of judgment.
Andrew's, Holborn, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. My father stuck bills at the time of the riots of London. 'You must be acquainted with the whole subject of bill-sticking, from that time to the present! said I. 'Pretty well so, was the answer. 'Excuse me, said I; 'but I am a sort of collector
Grissell and Peto would not allow us to post our bills on the said hoarding without paying them and from first to last we paid upwards of two hundred pounds for that hoarding, and likewise the hoarding of the Reform Club-house, Pall Mall." I embraced the opportunity of asking how many divisions the art and mystery of bill-sticking comprised?
Yet except for an occasional flare of bill-sticking or a bill in a window or a placard-plastered motor-car or an argumentative group of people outside a public-house or a sluggish movement towards the schoolroom or village hall, there was scarcely a sign that a great empire was revising its destinies. Now and then one saw a canvasser on a doorstep.
This was the coöperative work of the boy Bog, who, though adopted by old Van Quintem as his son and heir, had not yet given up the bill-sticking business, but, on the contrary, had increased it, and now had a practical monopoly of it in the city, with branches in the suburbs. Bog would not eat the bread of idleness and so he had modestly told Mr.
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