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Suddenly up behind her there came a rough, rude errand-boy, nine or ten years of age; a giant he looked by the fairy-child, as she fluttered along. I don't know how it was, but in some awkward way he knocked the poor little girl down upon the hard pavement as he brushed rudely past, not much caring whom he hurt, so that he got along.
Of course, he had hired an errand-boy, and never had errand-boy so little legitimate occupation. Resolved not to pay him for nothing, Mr. Farmiloe kept him cleaning windows, washing bottles, and the like, until the lad fairly broke into rebellion.
"There, and now, if you want to do me a service, just give me a glass of water." "Halloo, John," cried the clerk to the errand-boy, who was standing in the hack part of the store. "Bring a glass of water from the well! Hasten!" The boy took a glass and sprang out of the door into the street. "In a quarter of an hour they will be here," said the commissioner, quickly.
For be had resolved to go forth into the world and make his fortune, not to encumber his poor mother with his support any longer. He was going, probably, to New York, to be a clerk or an errand-boy in some dry-goods store, or banking-house, or insurance-office.
Then he sent for some one else, and gave him a scolding that made the unlucky recipient's hair stand on end; then he received a visit from a friend, with whom he chatted and joked for a pleasant quarter of an hour; then he took up the morning paper and skimmed through it, whistling to himself as he did so; then he rang another bell and told the errand-boy who answered it to bring him in at one o'clock sharp a large boiled beef underdone, with carrots and turnips, and a pint of "s. and b."
Abe was swallowing a huge mouthful of cocoa, and when Sol vouchsafed this last piece of information the cocoa found its way to Abe's pharynx, whence it was violently ejected into the face of a mild-mannered errand-boy sitting opposite. The errand-boy wiped his face while Sol slapped Abe on the back. "What's the matter, Abe?" Sol asked solicitously.
It is true, I cannot say what his first employment was; but it can be guessed; for there is no doubt that he began as an errand-boy, and that presently, growing bigger, he took a turn at driving a gravel-cart to and fro between the gravel-pits and the railway. Assuming this, I can go on to speak from my own knowledge.
"I can manage my business without any advice from you, and I don't want you to call me to account for what I do. I have given Frank a vacation, and I shall expect assistance from you that is all it is necessary for you to know about it." Frank was the errand-boy in Mr. Preston's shop.
I'm always optimistic but naturally so. Don't need torching!" "Look here, Breed, we've got enough dope on that ex-hobo who is doing your errand-boy work we know enough about him to kill your whole sorehead proposition. But I don't believe my uncle will even use it. No need of it." "Probably not," said Mr. Breed, without resentment. "And I wouldn't if I were he." "We won't descend to it.
Very glum she looked as she stepped quickly here and there, so much so that the dairymaid and the errand-boy chaffed her for her dull demeanor. Jane, however, hasty enough on most occasions, was too busy now with her own thoughts either to heed or answer them. Well she knew Lydia Purcell, equally well she knew that to tell Cecile's tale would be useless.
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