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Updated: May 29, 2025
I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely.
In the light of a swinging lamp the scene shone clearly in the surrounding darkness the brass urn, the thick crockery, the head of the stall-keeper bent intently over a newspaper, the munching jaws of the customers, the girl in the background with splashes of crimson paint like blood on her white drawn face.
I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely.
As our stores were now running uncomfortably short, this "Boycotting" system was anything but pleasant. "Will you sell us some eggs and milk?" I asked, as my unwilling guest rose to go. It was eating humble-pie with a vengeance, but hunger, like many other things, has no laws. "I am not a stall-keeper," was the answer.
The stall-keeper recommended the novel; he had read it himself; besides, it was having a sale. Drake turned to the title-page and glanced at the author's name Sidney Mallinson. He flashed into enthusiasm. 'Selling, eh? 'Very well indeed. 'Has it been published long? 'Less than three months. 'I will take it, and everything else by the same author. 'It is his first book.
Many years had gone since the stall-keeper last heard the tale, and still more might have been counted since the man disappeared, going no one knew whither. But he was not dead! He was coming again! It was too strange to believe! It could not be!
The cakes are all put out on large blocks, which are higher at the sides than in the middle, and, for twopence, any one who likes may try his luck and see if he can break the cake in two by striking it with a stout stick provided by the stall-keeper for the purpose. It is necessary to do this in one blow, for a second try involves the payment of another fee.
The stall-keeper glanced at his enthusiastic customer, and saw a sunburnt face, eager as a boy's. 'Oh! he said doubtfully, 'I don't know whether you will like it. It's violently modern. Perhaps this, and he suggested with an outstretched forefinger a crimson volume explained by its ornamentation of a couple of assegais bound together with a necklace of teeth.
"Take my word for it, won't you? this thing is my profession. I don't do it as a mere hobby: I live by it I have no other means of living but by it. I am what I am, and nothing more." "Oh, gammon! Why not tell me at once that you are a winkle stall-keeper and be done with it? You can't tell a fish that another fish is a turnip at least you can't and expect him to believe it. Own up, old chap.
They drank coffee at a stall where the urns were burnished and little lamps burnt along the counter. Taking Jacob for a military gentleman, the stall-keeper told him about his boy at Gibraltar, and Jacob cursed the British army and praised the Duke of Wellington. So on again they went down the hill talking about the Greeks.
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