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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Well, you be unloading the wood," said Patrick, "and I'll go see if this is Mirabell's Lamb. But I am very sure it is," Leaning his rake up against the back fence, Patrick walked up the garden path, around the "Big House," as the odd-job man had called it, and then the gardener went toward the house where Mirabell lived.
Farewell lived on a very small income on the top floor of the house, that his household consisted of a housekeeper who cooked and did the work of the apartment for him, and an odd-job man who came every morning to clean boots, knives, draw water and carry up fuel from below. I also learned that there was a good deal of gossip in the house anent the presence in Mr.
He was a rough character, and his position was merely that of an odd-job man, but I must say he did most things well, especially in the mechanical line. He and I had frequently made hunting excursions together, but always with one or two other members of the party. And now, for the first time, we went out from the camp alone." "Oh!" murmured Marjorie.
They ferry people across the stream or convey them wherever they wish to go in the neighborhood, carry light cargoes of fuel, food, or merchandise, deliver packages, and do a thousand and one services of the "odd-job" order. A sampan nearly always houses an entire family, and is rowed by the father and mother.
And suddenly he gave a great cry human enough this time! and the three young men rushing forward found him standing by the body of a roughly-clad man in whom Copplestone recognized the one-eyed odd-job man of the "Admiral's Arms."
When he again found himself at liberty, she induced the frankly unwilling proprietor of the Cliff Hotel the only hotel of any pretension to which Monkshaven could lay claim to take him into his employment as an odd-job man.
Her husband she spoke of him as "poor Judson" had been a carter and odd-job fellow, decent enough, I dare say, but hardly the man for her, I thought, after studying his portrait. There was a sort of foppish weakness in his face. And indeed his going seemed to have worked her no hardship, nor to have left any incurable sting of loss.
My master will buy it and I can chop it up. Then you can cart away some trash in your wagon." "I'll do that," said the odd-job man. "I guess the Lamb brought me good luck. I was thinking maybe I could sell this wood after I had chopped it up myself, but I'd rather sell it as it is. And I can then cart away the trash."
That's one reason why I give you a wider circle to range in, an' why I give you foreman's pay for odd-job work " "Now if you think 'at I don't earn all you're payin' me," sez I but he broke in: "If I didn't think I wouldn't pay it," sez he. "I can go down to the Lion Head any time I want an' get more'n you're payin' me," sez I. "I can pay you as much as any man in the West," sez he.
On a chair in a corner the scullery-maid sobbed and whooped. The odd-job man, who was a baseball enthusiast, was speaking in terms of high praise of Eustace's combined speed and control.
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