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"Ay, been appointed to the old berth," said Ruby, "so I'll have to unship you, Ned." "The sooner the better; faix, I niver had much notion o' this fiery style o' life; it's only fit for sallymanders and bottle-imps. But when d'ye begin work, lad?" "To-morrow, I believe. At least, I was told to call at the office to-morrow. To-day I have an engagement."
One year it consisted of highly colored, beautifully made bottle-imps, which were loudly cried as Amerikanskiya zhiteli, inhabitants of America. We inquired the reason for their name. "They are made in the exact image of the Americans," explained the peasant vendor, offering a pale blue imp, with a long, red tongue and a phenomenal tail, for our admiration. "We are inhabitants of America.
"Ay, been appointed to the old berth," said Ruby, "so I'll have to unship you, Ned." "The sooner the better; faix, I niver had much notion o' this fiery style o' life; it's only fit for sallymanders and bottle-imps. But when d'ye begin work, lad?" "To-morrow, I believe. At least, I was told to call at the office to-morrow. To-day I have an engagement."
"There ain't no sich things as bottle-imps, no more nor ghosts," observed Bumpus; "but hold your noise, you chatterbox, and let's hear wot the gal's got to say. Mayhap she knows summat about Alice?" At this, Poopy manufactured an expression on her sable countenance which was meant to be intensely knowing and suggestive. "Don't I? Yes, me do," said she.
The advertisement in the daily or weekly papers, the placard on the walls or boardings, the perambulating vans and banner-men, and the doomed hosts of bottle-imps and extinguishers, however successful each may be in attracting the gaze and securing the patronage of the multitude, fail, for the most part, of enlisting the confidence of a certain order of customers, who, having plenty of money to spend, and a considerable share of vanity to work upon, are among the most hopeful fish that fall into the shopkeeper's net.
"There ain't no sich things as bottle-imps, no more nor ghosts," observed Bumpus; "but hold your noise, you chatter-box, and let's hear wot the gal's got to say. Mayhap she knows summat about Alice?" At this, Poopy manufactured an expression on her sable countenance, which was meant to be intensely knowing and suggestive. "Don't I? Yes, me do," said she.
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