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Updated: May 15, 2025
There the landlords, being nearly always in the country, if not on their estates, look after their business themselves, and have merely an overlooker, who does not occupy the position of a gentleman, to superintend and report to them what may be needful, whilst the rents are collected by a solicitor. This is the case in Scotland also. But in Ireland this would never do.
It was a new aspect of nature to the child who had lived his four years amid the gay luxuriance of tropic verdure, and he was mightily interested. Nevertheless, it was a long hour before the overlooker returned with word that the Governor was on his way to Nevis with the militia of both Islands for St.
But shouldn't you call a man a lucky fellow if he owned a place like this?" "My opinion wouldn't be half as well worth having as yours," was the reply. "What do you call yourself, sir?" "Do you think I own this place?" Mr. Thorne inquired. "Why, yes I always supposed so. Don't you?" "No, I don't!" The answer was almost a snarl. "I'm bailiff, overlooker, anything you like to call it.
"It means beer, George," the ancient replied, "beer and froth, and nothing else." "Nothing else! I hope that is a true word, Saunders, that's all. I mislike the looks of some of those fellows." "Why, to judge from all the whispers we hear," the overlooker commented, "we are like enough to get our backs well hazelled before long."
As he grew old he attached himself to the son as he had done to the father, and by degrees became a kind of overlooker of a house in which his remarkable integrity, his acknowledged sobriety, and a thousand other virtues useless to enumerate, gave him an eternal place by the fireside, with a right of inspection over the domestics.
'Their book-stuff goes in at one ear and out at t'other. I can make nought on't. Afore Hamper and me had this split, th' overlooker telled him I were stirring up the men to ask for higher wages; and Hamper met me one day in th' yard.
I summed up my account by saying that "I was at present a kind of overlooker in the stables of the inn, had still some pounds in my purse, and, moreover, a capital horse in the stall." "No very agreeable posture of affairs," said Francis Ardry, looking rather seriously at me.
Stay, we'll go across the yard; the men are not come back, and we shall have it to ourselves. These good people, I see, are at dinner; said he, closing the door of the porter's lodge. He stopped to speak to the overlooker. The latter said in a low tone: 'I suppose you know, sir, that that man is Higgins, one of the leaders of the Union; he that made that speech in Hurstfield.
Meadowcroft the elder, having not spoken one word thus far, himself introduced the newcomer to me, with a side-glance at his sons, which had something like defiance in it a glance which, as I was sorry to notice, was returned with the defiance on their side by the two young men. "Philip Lefrank, this is my overlooker, Mr. Jago," said the old man, formally presenting us.
Even old Saunders, the overlooker, caught one of the opposition gang by the collar, crying, "Ye loons, what for are ye coming our way again? Ye ha' been once to-day, wi' your jibes and jeers; isn't that enough?" "Jibes and jeers, old lad! Eh, there'll happen be mair than that afore bedtime." Meanwhile there was rough work around the banner.
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