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Handyman: A scout must be able to paint a door or bath, whitewash a ceiling, repair gas fittings, tap washers, sash lines, window and door fastenings, replace gas mantles and electric light bulbs, hang pictures and curtains, repair blinds, fix curtain and portiere rods, blind fixtures, lay carpets, mend clothing and upholstery, do small furniture and china repairs, and sharpen knives.
The four stool restaurant, with a few tables, where Adamski worked as a handyman, was crowded when I arrived and he was circulating around serving beer and picking up empty bottles. There was no doubt as to who he was because his fame had spread. To the dozen almost reverently spoken queries, "Are you Adamski?" he modestly nodded his head.
He had reckoned on staying in town all the summer, as general handyman to the Inspector himself; but all hope of that was gone now. The Inspector was no longer as good as a father to him. And Grindhusen bore the disappointment badly. When they came to settle up, the Inspector had been going to deduct the two-Kroner pieces he had given him, saying they had only been meant as payment in advance.
You are the men I have been called upon to try, and not Mr. Stubbles. I, therefore, declare you guilty of waylaying one, John Handyman by name, with the intention of afflicting bodily injury, and also of breaking into Professor Strong's house.
"But they said it was on the main road where they were attacked," Nan replied. "Then they must be lying. There is the proof where the fight took place. And why was it here?" she asked. "I don't know, do you?" "I think I do. Billy and Tom were lying in wait for Mr. Handyman last night, and attacked him as he was coming from our house." "Oh, do you think so? What would they do that for?"
Handyman has told me nothing. I have not seen him since the fight." "But you saw him last night. He was at your house." "How do you know that?" "Oh, I know very well." "You were spying upon us, I suppose, sneaking around and looking in at the window. Do you call that a manly thing to do?" Ben was getting the worst of the conversation, and he knew it. "I'll get even with that cur," he declared.
Some few years back I was staying with the rector of a parish in the West, where the society to which I belong owns property. I was to go over some of this land: and, on the first morning of my visit, soon after breakfast, the estate carpenter and general handyman, John Hill, was announced as in readiness to accompany us. The rector asked which part of the parish we were to visit that morning.
When the old lath and plaster had been cleared away, our handyman contractor discovered that the old beams and uprights were spaced at eighteen-inch intervals, while our new wall board came in widths conforming to the sixteen-inch spacing that has been standard with American house construction for a century.
She startled me. And, oh, Mr. Handyman, I want to thank you for the stand you took that night." "You don't blame me, then?" "Blame you! Why, no." "I am thankful for that. It shows that all are not against me." "Only the Stubbles condemn you. They are very angry." Nell paused suddenly, as if in deep thought. "Are you going right home?" she presently asked. "Yes."
MOORE, JUDGE. Richard Moore, called to the Bar in 1807, acted for the defence in the trial of O'Connell and the Traversers, Liberal Attorney-General in 1846 and "almost Lord Chancellor." He was raised to the Bench in 1847 and died in 1858. Attorney-General in 1848, Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, 1850. NAGLE, DR. "A Dublin doctor without patients," who acted as a handyman for John O'Connell.
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