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Updated: May 12, 2025
I worked eagerly with all the rest till the big entry was completely filled up, Mr Frewen taking the lead, and lifting and packing in the chests, till the solid wall was formed one so well bonded together, as a bricklayer would call it, that it seemed to me that it would require a battering-ram to force a way through.
And m'sister as is married to a bricklayer is near to help with the family." "The family?" echoed Bart, looking scared. "In course they will come, though it's early to be thinking of names for 'em. I'll do the washing, Bart, and you'll take round the cart, so don't you think things 'ull be otherwise." "I don't want 'em to," said Bart, affectionately. "I always loved you, Debby darling."
He might be a bricklayer or a roadsweeper if you judge by his appearance. This is the tomb I was telling you about." We halted before the plain coffer of stone, weathered and wasted by age, but yet kept in decent repair by some pious hands, and read the inscription, setting forth with modest pride, that here reposed Anna, sixth daughter of Richard Cromwell, "The Protector."
Anywhere in Cornwall you may see a carter, a miner, a fisherman, a bricklayer, who with the high distinction of his finely cast face, the mingling in his manner of easy nonchalance and old-world courtesy, seems only to need a visit to the tailor to add dignity to a Pall Mall club.
She was only a pink and white, very ordinary little girl. I have no idealisations or illusions concerning Phyllis. But she had a little fine steel of character running through her. It flashed on Gedge. "I don't want to marry anybody," she declared. "But I'd sooner marry a bricklayer who was fighting for his country than a fine gentleman like Mr. Holmes who wasn't.
Think for a moment of the great variety of walls, footings, piers, pilasters, openings, recesses, flues, chimney breasts, chimney shafts, vaults, arches, domes, fireproof floors, corbels, strings, cappings, panels, cornices, plinths, and other features met with in constant use, and all formed by the bricklayer with little trouble out of the one material brickwork!
It costs the ploughman no effort to make up his mind to begin. He does not stand irresolute, as you and I in childish days have often done when taken down to the sea for our morning dip, and when trying to get courage to take the first plunge under water. And the bricklayer lifts and places the first brick of his daily task just as easily as the last one.
Then he began again, and reached down for another brick. The little boy was so busy watching the bricklayer that he forgot all about the masons who were putting mortar on the wall. But, pretty soon, all the men said something to all the other men, and they stopped laying bricks, and they began to take off their overalls. "What are they going to do now?" the little boy asked.
It is stated by the missionaries that when engaged in building their churches and schools they sometimes found they had a field-marshal for a foreman, a colonel for mason or carpenter, a major for bricklayer, and so on! Above the thirteenth rank the numbers were very few, and of the sixteenth there were not above half-a-dozen.
As to the bricklayer, the mason, and the like these would be artists, and doing not only necessary, but beautiful, and therefore happy work, if art were anything like what it should be.
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