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People here usually live to a great age, and then go off without the assistance of a doctor. What else can you turn your hand to?" "Anything," replied Considine, with the overweening confidence of youth. "Which means nothing, I suspect," said the Dutchman, "for Jack-of-all-trades is proverbially master of none."
Knowledge is now too broad a field for your Jack-of-all-Trades; and, from beautifully utilitarian reasons, he makes his choice, draws his pen through a dozen branches of study, and behold John the Specialist. That this is the way to be wealthy we shall not deny; but we hold that it is not the way to be healthy or wise.
So he went within doors, and there Dario gave orders to our gardener, who was a handy sort of Jack-of-all-trades, what pieces of furniture should be removed, how the walls and floor should be protected, and how a scaffold should be set up for him to work on.
"You have forgotten, too, in the blazonry of your chapel, the reed which formed the sceptre of mockery forced into the Son's hands. But the reed, like the buckthorn, is a sort of Jack-of-all-trades.
In winter weather too rough for fishing, when the little farms lay idle, this Yankee Jack-of-all-trades plied his axe and adze to shape the timbers, and it was a routine task to peg together a sloop, a ketch, or a brig, mere cockleshells, in which to fare forth to London, or Cadiz, or the Windward Islands some of them not much larger and far less seaworthy than the lifeboat which hangs at a liner's davits.
"Great Scott, look at her! She's goin' to try and take 'em!" exclaimed Osterhaut, the Jack-of-all-trades at Lebanon. "She ain't such a fool as all that. Why, no one ever done it alone. Low water, too, when every rock's got its chance at the canoe. But, my gracious, she is goin' to ride 'em!" Jowett, the horse-dealer, had a sportsman's joy in a daring thing. "See, old Injun Tekewani's after her!
The struggle for existence has not been absent from the lives of these light-hearted little fellows, and they have had to be jack-of-all-trades in their search for food. The gnats and other flying insects have indeed to take many chances when they slip from their cocoons and dance up and down in the warm sunlight!
It was late June, and Gilbert had returned from school, so the work of making the Yellow House attractive and convenient was to move forward at once. Up to now, the unpacking and distribution of the furniture, with the daily housework and cooking, had been all that Mrs. Carey and the girls could manage. A village Jack-of-all-trades, Mr.
The rotten old wharf in front of the house stood badly in need of repairs. The fiddler proved himself a Jack-of-all-trades and master of more than one. In the middle of May the anglers began to arrive at the Retreat a quiet, sociable, friendly set of men, most of whom were old-time acquaintances, and familiar lovers of the woods.
And this, indeed, they all promised us accordingly. When I came to Will Atkins's house, I found his baptized wife, and the young woman newly married to my Jack-of-all-trades, were become great intimates, and discoursing of religion together.
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