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You'd find luster cider jugs, maybe a fine toby, old Chinese ginger jars, and the quaintest of Dutch schnapps bottles, cheek by jowl with an iron warming-pan, a bootjack, a rusty leather bellows, and a box packed with empty patent-medicine bottles, under the pantry shelf.
"Of course I did n't know as I was going to hear the other side afore night fell, but hearin' her side stirred me up so that I give her my advice, an' my advice was to put the bootjack under her pillow.
The truth is, sir, that I'm a going to seek my fortun. 'O, indeed, Cobbs? he says, 'I hope you may find it." Boots hereupon giving his audience the assurance, with the characteristic touch of the bootjack to his forehead, that "he hadn't found it yet!"
'This wonderful invention, sir, said Mark, tenderly patting the empty glass, 'is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler when you name it long; cobbler, when you name it short. Now you're equal to having your boots took off, and are, in every particular worth mentioning, another man. Having delivered himself of this solemn preface, he brought the bootjack. 'Mind!
I heard of your approaching happiness with the highest pleasure. And how does Rose? and how is our old whimsical friend the Baron? Well, I trust, since I see you at freedom And how will you settle precedence between the three ermines passant and the bear and bootjack? 'How, oh how, my dear Fergus, can you talk of such things at such a moment!
There was a little chaffing going on I hope you don't consider that a low expression, Miss Pecksniff; it is always in our gentlemen's mouths a little chaffing going on, my dear, among 'em, all in good nature, when suddenly he rose up, foaming with his fury, and but for being held by three would have had Mr Jinkins's life with a bootjack. Miss Pecksniff's face expressed supreme indifference.
We took a little run into the sea and got lost in a fog; but the pilot whistled for the landmarks, and Echo answered; so that by the time the fog was ready to roll away, like a snowy drop-curtain, we knew just where we were, and ran quietly into a nook that looked as if it would fit us like a bootjack.
"Why, sir, you ax'd for a bootjack, sure, and I brought you the best I had and it's not my fault it's bruk, so it is, for it wasn't me bruk it, but Biddy batin' the cock." "Beating the cock!" repeated the little man in surprise. "Bless me! beat a cock with a bootjack! what savages!"
"I have had such an immense number of sweet-hearts!" said the collar, "I could not be in peace! It is true, I was always a fine starched-up gentleman! I had both a bootjack and a hair-comb, which I never used! You should have seen me then, you should have seen me when I lay down!
The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatch, that journal which is taken in by most ladies of her profession, to be vulgar and Radical, and loved the theatrical gossip in which the other mentioned journal abounds. The fact is, that the "Royal Bootjack," though a humble, was a very genteel house; and a very little persuasion would induce Mr.
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