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There was a new dean just come in Dean Burscough it was and my father had been 'prenticed to a good firm of joiners in the city, and knew what good work was when he saw it. Crool it was, he used to say: all that beautiful wainscot oak, as good as the day it was put up, and garlands-like of foliage and fruit, and lovely old gilding work on the coats of arms and the organ pipes.
"Come now, lads, be advised and go no farther than Winchester, where Master Ambrose may get all the book-learning he is ever craving for, and you, Master Steevie, may prentice yourself to some good trade." "Prentice!" cried Stephen, scornfully. "Ay, ay. As good blood as thine has been prenticed," returned Joan.
"I'm prenticed!" said Jasper, though in a very weak little voice. "Have you had bite or sup?" asked Kit.
Dr. , who attends her sometimes, said to me, says he, 'It is the mind, Mr. Perkins; I wish we could get back her boys." "And where are they?" "'Prenticed out, I fancy. Master Sidney " "Sidney!" "Ah! that was his name pretty name. D'ye know Sir Sidney Smith? extraordinary man, sir! Master Sidney was a beautiful child quite spoiled. She always fancied him ailing always sending for me. 'Mr.
Every time I saw it I says to myself, 'When I'm a man I'll have a place like that. I tried to get a job there, but I couldn't they made too many family inquiries, you see," he added bitterly; "well, if I could get 'prenticed to a place like that ... might be head man some day...." He began whistling with forced indifference, queerly conscious that the whole of his life seemed packed in that little boat waiting.
Gurney, an, if yo chose for t' land, yo were to ha yor money for a farm, when yo wor big eneuf, an if yo turned agen th' land, yo wor to be 'prenticed to soom trade, an ha yor money when yo wanted it, Mr. Gurney bein willin. An I promised him I'd deal honest wi his childer, an Reuben paused painfully. He was wrestling with his conscience, and groping for words about his wife.
He used to drive old Drusilla Fawley's bread-cart out at Marygreen, till he 'prenticed himself at Alfredston. Since then he's been very stuck up, and always reading. He wants to be a scholar, they say." "Oh, I don't care what he is, or anything about 'n. Don't you think it, my child!" "Oh, don't ye! You needn't try to deceive us! What did you stay talking to him for, if you didn't want un?
Dr. , who attends her sometimes, said to me, says he, 'It is the mind, Mr. Perkins; I wish we could get back her boys." "And where are they?" "'Prenticed out, I fancy. Master Sidney " "Sidney!" "Ah! that was his name pretty name. D'ye know Sir Sidney Smith? extraordinary man, sir! Master Sidney was a beautiful child quite spoiled. She always fancied him ailing always sending for me. 'Mr.
Two thousand a year without debt or drawback except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?
Wen I wuz young I us'ter b'long ter Marse Bob Smif, down in old Missourn. I wuz bawn down dere. W'en I wuz a gal I wuz married ter a man named Jim. But Jim died, an' after dat I married a merlatter man named Sam Taylor. Sam wuz free-bawn, but his mammy and daddy died, an' de w'ite folks 'prenticed him ter my marster fer ter work fer 'im 'tel he wuz growed up.
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