Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
"The humble petition of William Jingle, Coach-maker and Chair-maker, of the Liberty of Westminster: "TO ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, ESQUIRE, CENSOR OF GREAT BRITAIN: "Showeth, "That upon the late invention of Mrs. Catharine Cross-stitch, mantua-maker, the petticoats of ladies were too wide for entering into any coach or chair, which was in use before the said invention.
"A mere question of paint," said the easy chair again, evidently delighted to have his witticism quoted. "But, sir," continued the wooden chair, "when I was new I was not to be laughed at. If I was black, I was varnished brightly and glistened beautifully when the chair-maker set me and my brothers, here, out in a row in the sun.
Its furniture was a plank bed, a few shelves, a bench, two chairs, some utensils, a fireplace of stone, a picture of the Virgin and Child, and of a cardinal of the Church of Rome with a red hat for the chair-maker had been a Roman Catholic, the only one of that communion in Hamley.
"No thanks to thee that he did not lie in his grave," observed the shrill Elder. "In truth I hit hard," was the quiet reply. "How came thee expert with thy fists?" asked Elder Fairley, with the shadow of a smile. "A book I bought from London, a sack of corn, a hollow leather ball, and an hour betimes with the drunken chair-maker in the hut by the lime-kiln on the hill.
Dick wrote us word that we must earn our own living, but that he would be a brother to us, and to show his affection he apprenticed me to a chair-maker, and my slight, delicate young brother Arthur to a blacksmith. "Mine was not a bad trade, for furniture was in great demand. `If that is to be my calling I will go at it, said I to myself.
In Hamley there were but two in whom she had any real comfort and help Lady Eglington and the old chair-maker. Of an afternoon or evening one or the other was to be seen in the long high-wainscoted room, where a great fire burned, or in the fruitless garden where the breeze stirred the bare branches.
"No thanks to thee that he did not lie in his grave," observed the shrill Elder. "In truth I hit hard," was the quiet reply. "How came thee expert with thy fists?" asked Elder Fairley, with the shadow of a smile. "A book I bought from London, a sack of corn, a hollow leather ball, and an hour betimes with the drunken chair-maker in the hut by the lime-kiln on the hill.
His parents, though mean, had not omitted the care of his education so far but that he had learned to read and write, which they thought qualification sufficient for the business in which they intended to breed him, viz., a cane chair-maker, to which employment they put him apprentice.
We joyfully accompanied him home to the strangest of clean houses, where we were well entertained to the satisfaction of all parties. But the novel feature of the entertainment was, that our host was a chair-maker, and that the chairs assigned to us were mere frames, altogether without bottoms of any sort; so that we passed the evening on perches.
But, nevertheless, he was none too well off in the world; his clothes were patched, and his shoes gaped, and that is the way with many another wise man of whom I have heard tell. Babo gathered rushes for a chair-maker, and he also had too few of the good things to make life easy. But it is nothing out of the way for a simpleton to be in that case.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking