scissors-grinding

Updated: May 6, 2025

Our Ralph's been scraping the boiler lid with 'em, till they're nearly as blunt as a broom handle." "Ay, missus, I'll give 'em an edge; but you mustn't let your Ralph have all his own way, or he'll take the edge off your heart afore so long." The scissors-grinding proceeded briskly, and soon a troop of dirty children were gathered round the wheel, and began to teaze the old man.

Theodore P. Wilson - Frank Oldfield: Lost and Found