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From the River of Caliana on the Coast of Guiana, Novemb. 17, 1617," published in 1618. The Characters of Persons and Trades in "Micrologia" are: a Fantastic Tailor, a Player, a Shoemaker, a Ropemaker, a Smith, a Tobacconist, a Cunning Woman, a Cobbler, a Tooth-drawer, a Tinker, a Fiddler, a Cunning Horse-Courser; and of Places, Bethlem, Ludgate, Bridewell, Newgate.
The city apprentices rose in a tumult, and demanded a free parliament. Though they were suppressed by Colonel Hewson, a man who from the profession of a cobbler had risen to a high rank in the army, the city still discovered symptoms of the most dangerous discontent. It even established a kind of separate government, and assumed the supreme authority within itself.
And first of all I must tell you something about myself and how I came to meet the Doctor. MY name was Tommy Stubbins, son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; and I was nine and a half years old. At that time Puddleby was only quite a small town.
"Did ye iver think, sir," interposed the cobbler, softly, "that mebbe there was implanted in the la-ad desires for things ye know nothin' of?" "Huh!" grunted Sorber, balancing a mouthful of beans on his knife to the amazement of Dot, who had seldom seen any person eat with his knife. "Lit me speak plainly, for 'tis a plain man I am," said the Irishman. "This boy whom ye call nephew ?"
"Bury him on the hill, dearie, where you found me," he whispered. "It's lovely there, and he can see my stars." "All right," replied Jinnie, dropping her hand on the boy's golden head. That afternoon, just before the funeral, Jinnie stood quietly in front of the cobbler. "Lafe," she said, looking at him appealingly, "the kitty's happy even if he is dead, isn't he?" "Sure," replied Lafe.
But Neale O'Neil pulled his cap down to his ears and followed behind the Kenway girls to school. He was too proud and too sensitive to walk with them. He knew that he was bound to be teased by the boys at school, when once they saw his head. Even the old cobbler had said to him: "'Tis a foine lookin' noddle ye have now. Ye look like a tinder grane onion sproutin' out of the garden in the spring.
"But," asked "Cobbler" Horn, whose heart, secretly, was almost bursting with delight, "may you not be mistaken, after all?" "I am not mistaken," replied Tommy firmly. "But it's such a long while ago," suggested "Cobbler" Horn; "and and she will be very much altered by this time. You can't be sure that a young woman is the same person as a little girl you haven't seen for more than a dozen years."
Then he said— “I have been shaved by the King of Castille’s daughter, and I have courted his barber. I will not be again deceived. They shall now be man and wife for ever.” This was the wise King of Leon. Not far from the Garden of the Widows, in Burgos, lived a cobbler who was so poor that he had not even smiled for many years.
Take any connected account of the revelation of the divine will, and this history is substantially the same. Gertrude of Nivelles or of Saint Brigida, or in the homely language of the cobbler George Fox.
'Twelve year, replied the cobbler, biting the end of his pipe as he spoke. 'Contempt? inquired Sam. The cobbler nodded. 'Well, then, said Sam, with some sternness, 'wot do you persevere in bein' obstinit for, vastin' your precious life away, in this here magnified pound?
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