chair-carrying

Updated: May 23, 2025

Such printed leaves freely and unhesitatingly predicted that the day on which he would publicly lose face was incomparably nearer than that on which the Imperial army would receive its back pay, and in a quaint and gravity-removing manner advised him to protect himself against an obscure but inevitable poverty by learning the accomplishment of chair-carrying an occupation for which his talents and achievements fitted him in a high degree, they remarked.

Ernest Bramah - The Wallet of Kai Lung