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Updated: June 13, 2025
Things have gone badly with me, but I have not taken to drink you may believe that, though, to be sure, I can't prove it." "I believe you, for you surely would not wish to deceive the only one you have on earth! But oh, how wild and miserable you look! You have a beard as heavy as a knife-grinder's. I won't allow that you must shave it off. But you're in good health?
"Well, after thinking a long while, I came to the decision that, as I could not be a perfect gentleman, I would be the nearest thing to it that was possible; and I considered that the most enviable situation was that of a travelling tinker. I learned enough of the trade, saved money to purchase a knife-grinder's wheel, and here I have been in this capacity for nearly ten years."
'Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, said he, putting the child on one knee, and working away with it as though he were turning a knife-grinder's wheel with his foot. 'Mamma, mamma, said Julia, crossly. 'I don't want to be diddle diddled. Let me go, you naughty old man, you.
The next day Mary arrived at the Hall, first communicated to Mrs Austin what had occurred, and then, having received our hero's two last epistles, sat down to write the packet containing all the intelligence we have made known, and ended by requesting Joey to set off with his knife-grinder's wheel, and come to the village near to the Hall, that he might receive his share of Mrs Chopper's money, the silver pencil-case, and the warm greeting of his adopted sister.
As he came nearer, he made it out to be a man prostrate on the grass, apparently asleep, and a few yards from where the man lay was a knife-grinder's wheel, and a few other articles in the use of a travelling tinker; a fire, nearly extinct, was throwing up a tiny column of smoke, and a saucepan, which appeared to have been upset, was lying beside it.
The second day after, Joey, having received his instructions, set off, with his knife-grinder's wheel, for the mansion-house. When he went round the copse where the bench was, he found Miss Mathews there. "I beg your pardon, miss, but do you think there is any work at the house?" "Come here, sir," said Melissa, assuming a very dignified air. "Yes, miss," said Joey, walking slowly to her.
Itinerant knife-grinders are an old institution here, and in some obscure way possibly because of their thievish propensities are associated intimately with the devil; and so there is either a knife-grinder simple, or a devil with a knife-grinder's wheel.
'And then as to stories, my story amounts to the knife-grinder's, with nothing at all for a catastrophe. A bird in a cage would have as good a story, Most of my events, and nearly all my intense pleasures, have passed in my thoughts. I wrote verses as I dare say many have done who never wrote any poems very early; at eight years old and earlier.
When they had breakfasted, he desired Joey to go for the knife-grinder's wheel, and follow him. As soon as they were clear of the village, Spikeman said, "It will not do to remain at the village; there's a cottage half a mile down the road where they once gave me a lodging; we must try if we can get it now."
Browning writes: "As to stories, my story amounts to the knife-grinder's, with nothing at all for a catastrophe. A bird in a cage would have as good a story; most of my events and nearly all my intense pleasure have passed in my thoughts." She was born at Burn Hall, Durham, on March 6th, 1809, and passed a happy childhood and youth in her father's country house at Hope End, Herefordshire.
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