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Like enough he takes his tings in hand-truck to station. You like to see him, sah?" "Yes, I should like to have a minute's talk with him. Here is your dollar." The waiter rang a bell, and a minute later the outdoor porter presented himself. "You recommember taking some tings to station for a tall man with gray goatee, Pomp?" the waiter asked. "It was more dan three weeks ago.
"Saloon carriage being coupled up behind, my lord," he said. The problem was solved. The guard glanced at his watch. It seemed to him that both the bank messenger and the undertaker were cutting it fine. The coffin came presently on a hand-truck a black velvet pall lay over it, and on the sombre cloth a wreath or two of white lilies.
Like enough he take his tings in hand-truck to station. You like to see him, sah?" "Yes, I should like to have a minute's talk with him. Here is your dollar." The waiter rang a bell, and a minute later the outdoor porter presented himself. "You remember taking some tings to station for a tall man wid gray goatee, Pomp?" the waiter asked. "It was more dan tree weeks ago.
The four-thirty-two train had just pulled in, and Timmy had gone across to meet it with his hand-truck, and now he returned. He came lazily, pulling the cart behind him with one hand. He didn't seem to care whether he ever got back to the office. Flannery's quick blood rebelled. "Is that all th' faster ye can go?" he shouted. "Make haste! Make haste!
'Snatchum came this afternoon with a hand-truck and a corfin, explained the keeper. 'I was out at the time, and the missis thought it was all right so she let him have the key. Hunter and Crass looked blankly at each other. 'Well, this takes the biskit! said the latter as soon as he could speak. 'I thought you said you had settled everything all right with the old woman? said Hunter.
The delightful little watering-place, it has been said, was looking its best; or at least this was the opinion expressed by a young man who, accompanied by his father and sister, walked up the esplanade on that particular morning, on his way to the railway-station en route for London by the ten o'clock South-Western express his luggage having preceded him on a hand-truck.
Everything, you know, has had to be made fresh, clothes and everything. Perambulator light affair broke one wheel, and the youngster had to be brought home on the milkman's hand-truck. Yes. Quite a crowd.... And we've put Georgina Phyllis back into his cot and put him into the bed of Georgina Phyllis. His mother naturally alarmed. Proud at first and inclined to praise Winkles. Not now.
"But if they had a hand-truck, such as they use in the stores of our country, they could do their work with far less labor," suggested Scott. "Those coolies would not use them," added the Hindu gentleman. "I have seen them in London, and these laborers would regard them as an invention of the Evil One to lead them away from their religion."
She quietly counted out to the lad the price of the little coffin, and then turned away to lay her son's body in it. Conrad Schmidt hardly knew what he had better do. First of all he hid the money he had just received in one of his shoes, and then began to consider whether he should leave his hand-truck at the mill or take it back with him to Freiberg. His uncertainty did not last long.
Upon my assenting he disappeared into the darkness of the warehouse with a hand-truck. He was not the sort who did his looting by retail, was that boatman. By midnight Roos and I were shivering as though with ague, for the night had turned cold, we had no coats, and we had been without food since leaving Ghent that morning. "I'm going to do a little looting on my own account." I finally announced.
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