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I'd sooner be an obscure farmer, a hayseed from Wayback, or a cabinetmaker, as my father advised, than the most distinguished man on earth. But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. But you must not think me sad about it. No; I am used to it, and am contented.
At this critical juncture Lansom Mansom, the cabinetmaker who had made our bookcases for us, came to our relief with the suggestion that he be employed to "go over" the floors and make them practicable. He advised the per-diem scheme, and with characteristic good nature we acceded to it.
She agreed to all this, but said we had better first break off some more amber, so that we might get a good round sum for it at Hamburg; and I thought so too, wherefore we stopped at home next day, seeing that we did not want for food, and that my child, as well as myself, both wished to refresh ourselves a little before we set out on our journey; item, we likewise bethought us that old Master Rothoog, of Loddin, who is a cabinetmaker, might knock together a little box for us to put the amber in, wherefore I sent the maid to him in the afternoon.
Therefore the Nile is the blood of the earth. And the mountains are the flesh, not the bones." Reuben, whose Egyptian name was Phater, had regarded Amram while he spoke with alarm and amazement. When the latter had ceased to speak, he began, "You are not Amram the worker in ebony and cabinet-maker." "I am certainly a worker in ebony and cabinetmaker, but I am also of Israel's priestly line.
"What what does your father do?" "He was a cabinetmaker. Then one of the other men tipped over a big chest and his right hand was crushed smashed to pieces, so he wasn't able to work any more. But he's mighty smart in his brains. It's the kind you can't make any money out of. He has read most everything. The trouble with pa was he had too much heart.
James Young; nor can we find, in all the annals of aspiring genius, a more wonderful example of the ultimate triumph of mind over matter. The origin of the inventor of paraffin oil was comparatively obscure. He was born in the Drygate of Glasgow a street on which the operations of the City Improvement Trust have effected a wonderful transformation where his father was a working cabinetmaker.
"Well," said Rock, "if the cabinetmaker can't take home his own goods, I think it is a pity." The girls laughed, and so the matter rested. "What shall we do now?" asked Rock. "Will you look at pictures, or play games, or what?" Dimple looked at Florence, and Florence looked at Dimple.
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