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He was also excessively dirty in his person and dress, and looked as if he had just been turned out of an oil-shop. He entered the tent with all the impudence of a nawab, chewing paun, and as though he was fully prepared to receive a welcome greeting. In this he was disappointed.
There, just as it grew dusk, some children were playing, and he tried to get amusement from their games. One of them was this. A little girl would say to the rest: "I sent my daughter to the oil-shop, and the first thing she saw was C;" and the task was to guess for what article this initial stood. "Carrots!" cried one, but was laughed to scorn. "Candles!" cried another, and triumphed.
His landlord was not ungracious, and went so far as to supply him with warm water, that he might in a measure cleanse himself. This operation rapidly performed, the hapless author flung himself into bed, and before long was fast asleep. When he went upstairs about nine o'clock in the morning he discovered that his host kept an oil-shop. 'Lost everything, have you? asked the man sympathetically.
"Keep 'em together, my dear, meanwhile. We're doing prime, and you shall have a sausage for supper." As the Cheap Jack waddled away for the whitening, Jan said to the lockers-on, "Keep your places, ladies and gentlemen, till I return, and keep your eyes on the drawing, which is the last of the series," and ran off down a narrow street, at right angles to the oil-shop.
He stood still for a moment opposite the entrance of the corner house, one side of which lay parallel to the stream while the other exhibiting the front door, and a small oil-shop faced the street; his attention had been attracted to it by a strange scene; but he had still much to attend to before starting on his journey, and he soon hurried on again without noticing a tall man who came towards him, wearing a travelling-hat and a cloak such as was usually adapted only for making journeys.
"No oil," said George, with a significant look; and Harris and I agreed. We had taken up an oil-stove once, but "never again." It had been like living in an oil-shop that week. It oozed. I never saw such a thing as paraffine oil is to ooze.
But he was the only one, so far as I could ever discover, to whom MacShaughnassy's recipe proved fatal. As for the others, they grew fat and sleek upon it. Some of them, indeed, began to acquire quite a figure. We lessened their numbers eventually by the help of some common oil-shop stuff.
Into one of these a small oil-shop, where she saw a woman behind the counter she at last ventured. "What for you?" said the woman, the moment she put her foot inside the door. "Please do you want a girl to help with work "
To them it was a very flimsy one, since the cost of a dozen such boxes at any oil-shop in the Edgware Road was twopence-three-farthings eleven farthings for twelve boxes of safety matches!
He stood still for a moment opposite the entrance of the corner house, one side of which lay parallel to the stream while the other exhibiting the front door, and a small oil-shop faced the street; his attention had been attracted to it by a strange scene; but he had still much to attend to before starting on his journey, and he soon hurried on again without noticing a tall man who came towards him, wearing a travelling-hat and a cloak such as was usually adapted only for making journeys.
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