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Updated: June 8, 2025
By the time our boy had attained his seventh year he could read fluently, write legibly, and work the first four rules in arithmetic. Besides this, he had glided into a sort of apprenticeship to the odd-job line of business, and was very useful to his principal.
The hotel porters are not allowed to carry baggage to and from the steamers or the station; we were told there was a law against it, which a man sitting by said was just enough, for the odd-job men must live! The retrospect from the railway is fine.
Shakespeare's first work may well have been that of a general helper, an odd-job man, about the theater; but he soon became an actor, and the records of the old London theaters show that in the next ten years he gained a prominent place, though there is little reason to believe that he was counted among the "stars."
'Eustace! cried Lady Wetherby, severely. Eustace lowered his foot and gazed at her meditatively, then at the odd-job man, then at the scullery-maid, whose voice rose high above the din. 'I rather fancy, m'lady, said Wrench, dispassionately, 'that the animal is about to hurl a plate.
But all he said was that he supposed the roof leaked, but it couldn't be very bad because everything seemed quite decently dry and not at all musty. He added that he must be getting back to work, but that an odd-job man, capable more or less of anything, was at her disposal for as long as she wanted him.
Ishmael went straight into his embrace, and the old odd-job man pressed the young gentleman to his honest, affectionate heart. "You knew me at once, professor," said Ishmael affectionately. "Knew you, my boy!" burst out the old man, with enthusiasm. "Why, I knew you as soon as ever you looked at me and spoke to me.
You have contributed as much to the comfort and well-being of the community in which you live as any other member of it! And you should not and you shall not be left in your old age, either to suffer from want or to live on charity " "I may suffer for want, Mr. Worth, but I never will consent to live on charity!" said the odd-job man with dignity.
My name, guv'-nor well-known hereabouts is Zachary Spurge!" "You sent me that note last night?" asked Copplestone, taking a seat and filling his pipe. "How did you get it there unseen?" "Got a cousin as is odd-job man at the 'Admiral's Arms," replied Spurge. "He slipped it in for me. You may ha' seen him there, guv'nor chap with one eye, and queer-looking, but to be trusted.
He tripped and fell, clutched at the apron to save himself, and came to the ground swathed in it, giving the effect of an apron mysteriously endowed with life. The triumphant odd-job man, pressing his advantage like a good general, gathered up the ends, converted it into a rude bag, and one more was added to the long list of the victories of the human over the brute intelligence.
"Are you sure it's the same one?" asked the odd-job man. "Quite sure," answered Patrick, and, oh, how the Lamb wished she dared speak out and say that she certainly was that very same toy! And how she wished they would take her to Mirabell! "We can soon tell if this is Mirabell's Lamb," went on Patrick. "I'll take it to her. If you want to you can unload that wood here.
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