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Updated: May 26, 2025
The lamplighter was moving along its wooden fence, leaving faint twinkling yellow lights, and there were little gleams from the windows on Bath Street beyond. The gayety of her morning mood was replaced by a dim kind of wondering, her thoughts became uncertain like the objects in the quivering light outside. The palest possible star shone in the yellow sky; she had to look hard or it was lost.
And the Little Boy on the Steps knew that it was Jimmy, the Lamplighter, working his way swiftly and silently. If only the supper bell would delay awhile The Boy would see old Jimmy light the lamp on grandfather's corner, as he had seen him countless times before.
It was a mighty near thing, Jervis; another inch or two and I should have been rolled out as flat as a starfish." "What became of the man?" I asked, wishing I could have had a brief interview with him. "Lost to sight though to memory dear: he was off like a lamplighter. An alcoholic apple-woman picked me up and escorted me back to the hospital.
By way of reply, the latter twisted the "warning" into the form of a lamplighter. Then he applied a match to one corner, and held the paper until it had burned to the last fragment. "That's my opinion of Mr. Larch Cadmus and his gang, and I shall pay the same attention to them."
Well, I brought her to Dublin, and used to ride her out two or three times a week, making little matches sometimes to trot and, for a thorough bred, she was a clipper at trotting to trot a mile or so on the grass another day to gallop the length of the nine acres opposite the Lodge and then sometimes, back her for a ten pound note, to jump the biggest furze bush that could be found all or which she could do with ease, nobody thinking, all the while, that the cock-tailed pony was out of Scroggins, by a 'Lamplighter mare. As every fellow that was beat to-day was sure to come back to-morrow, with something better, either of his own or a friend's, I had matches booked for every day in the week for I always made my little boy that rode, win by half a neck, or a nostril, and so we kept on day after day pocketing from ten to thirty pounds or thereabouts.
The way was without a single passenger, and not a creature lingered about the outer doors of the house: the interior I found in the possession of a single lamplighter who was leisurely setting about his duties; of him I inquired the hour of beginning, and learnt that it was usual to commence about seven or eight o'clock a tolerable latitude; time was thus afforded me for a ramble, and out I sallied, taking the direction leading from the town.
And she could see far away the lights of the lighthouses so picturesque she would have loved to do with a box of paints because it was easier than to make a man and soon the lamplighter would be going his rounds past the presbyterian church grounds and along by shady Tritonville avenue where the couples walked and lighting the lamp near her window where Reggy Wylie used to turn his freewheel like she read in that book The Lamplighter by Miss Cummins, author of Mabel Vaughan and other tales.
She would see the starlight on them. 'See, said their leader softly, as the long thin figure of the Lamplighter shot away into the night, 'she sleeps so lightly because she is so old fastened so delicately to the brain and heart. The fastenings are worn and loose now. Already she is partly out! 'That's why she's so muddled in the daytime, explained Jimbo, for his sister's benefit.
Daylight faded. Outside the lamplighter passed, torching the grimy lamps. Miss Anna spoke almost in a whisper: "Shall I have some light sent in?" "No, Anna." "Did you tell him what the doctors have said about his health?" "No; there was bad news enough without that for one day. And then happiness might bring back health to him.
But I was so stunned and dazed with the start it gave me, and the noise, that I had no measure of anything. They took me home with them. I can just call to mind moving in the carriage, and the lamplighter." Old Maisie recollected seeing the lamplighter, but she had forgotten how she was got into that carriage. "Then you hardly saw the children?" "I was all mazed.
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