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Rolleston asked eagerly who Skinflint was, and where he could be found. "Wal, he is a sorter sea Jack-of-all-trades, etarnally cruising about to buy gratis those he buys of call it stealing. Got a rotten old cutter, manned by his wife and fam'ly. They get coal out of me for fur, and sell the coal at double my price; they kill seals and dress the skins aboard; kill fish and salt 'em aboard.
Shall all mankind be specialist surgeons or peculiar plumbers; shall all humanity be monomaniac? Tradition has decided that only half of humanity shall be monomaniac. It has decided that in every home there shall be a tradesman and a Jack-of-all-trades. But it has also decided, among other things, that the Jack-of-all-trades shall be a Jill-of-all-trades.
You are a piper, a dancer, a hammer-thrower, and now a runner." "Jack-of-all-trades," laughed Perkins, who, with Mandy, was standing near. "Yes, but you can't say 'Master of none," replied Isa sharply. "Better wait," said Cameron. "I have entered this race only to save Mr. Freeman from collapse." "Collapse? Fatty? He couldn't," said Isa with emphasis. "Lass, I do not know," said Mack gravely.
Now, in middle life, too old to take up her calling again with any hope of success, yet with her mental activity unimpaired, she found in the Suffrage movement her one serious vocation. "I am nearly fifty, Mrs. Byrd," she said to Mary, "and have twenty good years before me. I like my friends, and am interested in philanthropy, but I am not a Jack-of-all-trades by temperament.
If I 'ad to depend on your silly old paws, I'd never get anything done at all." And so Tom, a flaxen-haired, sheepish-looking man of something over thirty, led a kind of go-as-you-please existence about the place, a jack-of-all-trades in turn carpenter, whitewasher, paper-hanger an expert fetcher and carrier, bullied by his father, sheltered under his stepmother's capacious wing.
He was regarded as a sort of jack-of-all-trades; for he was a good turner, a tolerable wheel-wright, and could repair mill-work at a pinch. He next moved northward to the Horsley ironworks, Tipton, where he was working as a pattern-maker when he had the misfortune to be drawn in his own county for the militia.
Where have you lodged in Hare Street, and what is your business?" "I am Jack-of-all-trades," I said. "I did some garden work there for Mr. Jermyn, the Papist." "The Papist, eh?" cried Mr. Rumbald. "I would work for the Devil," said I, "if he would pay me enough." The words appeared to Mr.
"My dear Renshaw, with all Europe worrying Ismail, with France in the butler's pantry and England at the front door, do the bowab and the sarraf go out to take air on the housetops, and watch the sun set on the Pyramids and make a rainbow of the desert? I am the bowab and the sarraf, the man-of-all- work, the Jack-of-all-trades, the 'confidential' to the Oriental spendthrift.
Without the railroad, the farmer who did not live near a navigable stream must remain a backwoodsman; he must make his own farm or his immediate community a self-sufficing unit; he must get from his own land bread and meat and clothing for his family; he must be stock-raiser, grain-grower, farrier, tinker, soap-maker, tanner, chandler Jack-of-all-trades and master of none.
Indeed, it is really essential for the well-doing of the emigrant, that he, or some members of his family, should have some knowledge of carpentry in fact, be a jack-of-all-trades; and, in that excellent profession, educated persons, healthy in mind and body, excel the most.
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