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It had been our policy to give just as careful attention to the small business as to that of more importance, but we now began to consider the wisdom of letting the former go. In the aggregate it was a handsome business of itself, but in detail it required so much time and attention, it was a question in my mind whether it paid us to longer cater to it.
An American principal with a bevy of "free and independent" youths to cater for is in an inconceivably different position from his English confrère, who is empowered to read his pupils' weekly letters to their parents and to send a policeman in pursuit of any runaway malcontent among them.
I knew the man by hearsay, though we had never met before; and I knew that he was of a nature to be pleased with his own prominence as coroner, especially in the case of so important a man as Joseph Crawford. So I made allowance for this harmless conceit on his part, and was even willing to cater to it a little by way of pleasing him.
He will recommend the best hotel of the little mountain village where the supervisor's office is usually located. At those hotels, you will board as a transient at $10 a week; as a permanent, for less. In many of the mountain hamlets are outfitters who will rent you a team of horses and tented wagon; and you can cater for yourself.
"'There's a good bit of it going about nowadays, I says. 'We are generally at it, on and off, between shouting about the blessings of peace. "'Not the sort of fighting I mean, replies he; 'I want to do something myself, not be one of a row. "'Well, I says, 'I give you up. You've dropped into the wrong world it seems to me. We don't seem able to cater for you here.
"Yes, and you owe ten thousand on a mortgage, and the tax bills haven't come in yet, and you'll have an income tax to pay.... We'll save awhile longer." It was greater heroism than he realized, for she had never lost, for a single instant, her abhorrence of the kitchen; nor was she willing to cater to her prejudice, and work with only the tips of her fingers.
Let us have the money we have economized, spent for us in things that we want, in additional fruit and vegetables, or in some articles of diet that we need to replace the food we do not use." The answer to it was that the Association furnished certain things, and if the members did not eat them it was their loss, as it could not be expected that the Association could cater to individual tastes.
p. 63 Cracking. Prostitution. A rare substantive, although 'Crack', whence it is derived, was common, cf. p. 93 and note. p. 65 Cater-tray. cater = quatre. The numbers four and three on dice or cards. This term was used generally as a cant name for dice; often for cogged or loaded dice. p. 69 She cries Whore first. In allusion to the old proverb cf. The Feign'd Courtezans, Act v, iv, Vol.
To cater to his natural patrons, cheap perfumes, confectionery, gaudy nostrums, theatrical make-up, and a round of disguised narcotics and "headache" medicines were always at hand.
I started on two fifty. But I forgot you don't know the business?" "No nothing about it," was her innocent, honest answer. "Ah well, then nine dollars eh?" Susan hesitated. "You can make quite a neat little bunch on the outside you can. We cater only to the best trade, and the buyers who come to us are big easy spenders. But I'm supposed to know nothing about that.
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