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I dashed off to the little hotel where I stayed, for my trunk, and soon we were galloping along the peaceful streets, here and there encumbered by pony-carts laden with vast piles of codfish, and finally reached the chandlery. "Well?" asked the captain, rushing out. "Not a nurse to be had to-day," I announced. "To-morrow or next day several may be disengaged."
Her first week's report of pledges ran into the thousands with a substantial immediate payment of real dollars. "How did you do it?" asked Santos in undisguised admiration, as she was telling him one night of her success, in the dusty, cobwebbed little ship chandlery on South Street where the Junta headquarters had been established.
This is just a small selection of the articles he keeps and has to account for at stocktaking, and if you turned out his various storerooms you would find he had sufficient articles to set up a combined ironmongery, ship chandlery, and stationery emporium. Occasionally he also is bothered with conundrums.
"Everything here looks quite ordinary," said Peter Schmidt, "but here we have all the ancient models." He pointed to the small model of an ancient vessel standing in the little window of the chandlery, among packages of chewing tobacco and leather whips. Ships, ships, nothing but ships!
'And leave off his evil ways, and set up in the chandlery line arterwards, said the housemaid. 'Now, I'll tell you what it is, young man, said Mr. Do you understand that, Sir? Here Mr. Muzzle, who had a great notion of his eloquence, in which he imitated his master, paused for a reply. But Mr. Trotter made no reply. So Mr. Muzzle proceeded in a solemn manner
If Tyke were going, that would mean that he would have to stay behind to look after the interests of the chandlery shop. "But your business?" objected the captain. "Business be hanged!" roared Tyke. "It can go to Davy Jones, for all I care. Anyway, I can leave it in good hands. But I'm going to have one more sight of blue water before I turn up my toes for good, no matter what happens.
'A shop! two shops; a great man in the chandlery line, responded Larry. 'H'm! not precisely the thing we want, though, says Toole. 'There are some of them, surely, that don't keep shops, said Devereux, a little impatiently. 'Millions! said Larry. 'Come, say their names. 'Only one of them came this evening, Mr. Doolan, of Stonnybatther he's a retired merchant.
How are you gettin' on, and how is the chandlery bis'ness likely to do? Well, I am so glad to see you. How happy you look. It's quite a treat to see you; ain't it, Mr. Muzzle? 'Quite, said Mr. Muzzle. 'So cheerful he is! said Sam. 'In such good spirits! said Muzzle. 'And so glad to see us that makes it so much more comfortable, said Sam. 'Sit down; sit down. Mr.
Taltavull exchanged three small diamonds for cash, which enabled us to settle outstanding accounts; Haigh procured a basket of bread, hard-boiled eggs, and vermouth bottles; I made two or three chandlery purchases, and gave the rigging a bit of an overhaul.
They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.
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