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'Oh, did you put in the way they threw the things out at window at Jessop's without looking what they were! cried Lance; 'and the jolly smash the jugs and basins made, and when their house was never on fire at all: and how the coal-heaver said "Hold hard, frail trade there!" 'Well, said Felix quaintly, 'I put it in a different form, you see.
I hailed the mate, an' offered myself for a coal-heaver. But I wasn't wanted, as he told me civilly enough, which was better treatment than usual. As I turned off rather glum I was signalled by one of them sleek, smooth-spoken rascals with a white hat an' a weed on it, as is always goin' about the piers a-seekin' who they may devower.
'Tis under the strictest seal of confidence; she asked my advice as soon as she had done it. 'What! has she accepted him! said Violet. 'Has it come to that? 'Ay; and now she wants to know whether people will think it odd and improper. Let them think, I say. 'A piece of luck for her, said Arthur; 'better marry a coal-heaver than lead her present life.
"Ye'd have brought a cropper in that slide, an' the road wud be minus a coal-heaver!" said Carson. "Wud ye luk at him now!" The black was coming down, forelegs asprawl, his hind quarters sliding in the sand.
Can you tell me, citizeness?" A grunt or an oath were the usual replies, but no one took any further notice of the gigantic coal-heaver and his ragged friends.
Then, far and faint, were heard a crew of Chinese sailors, on the nearest junk, singing a curious, falsetto chantey as they hauled on a bamboo-braced sail.... "A feller wot never travelled wouldn't bloody well believe they was such queer people in the world," further observed the philosophic coal-heaver.
The coal-shed is made tidy and swept up, and the coal-heaver awaits his company. There he stands at the door of his stable, dressed in his blue blouse, dustman's hat, and maroon kerchief tightly fastened round his neck.
The captain took his spell with the rest. Even Mr Webster threw off his coat and went to work as if he had been born and bred a coal-heaver. The work, however, was very exhausting, and when land appeared no one seemed to have any heart to welcome it except Annie and her old nurse Mrs Niven.
When in Dickens's "Nicholas Nickleby" the coal-heaver calls at the fashionable barber's to be shaved, the barber declines that service. The coal-heaver pleads that he saw a baker being shaved there the day before. But the barber points out to him that it is necessary to draw the line somewhere, and he draws it at bakers.
'Pray haven't you heard of a jolly young coal-heaver Who down at Hungerford used for to ply "A leetle leggy? p'r'aps, Barnabas, and yet ha!" 'His daddles he used with such skill and dexterity, Winning each mill, sir, and blacking each eye "His cannons'll never trouble him, Barnabas, come rough or smooth, and you didn't say a word too much in your letter.
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