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Updated: May 29, 2025
That'd bang all yer tallow-scoops." "Impossible, David." "Yes, sir, s'posed so when I said it. But I say, Master Tom." "Yes." "That chap's sure to know as your uncle's gone to London for two or three days." "Yes; you can't move here without its being known, David," said Tom, polishing away, and making his fingers dirty. "Then, don't you see, sir?" "No; what?"
We stopped a fortnit at this dull place, and did nothing from morning till night excep walk on the bench, and watch the ships going in and out of arber, with one of them long, sliding opra-glasses, which they call, I don't know why, tallow-scoops. Our amusements for the fortnit we stopped here were boath numerous and daliteful; nothink, in fact, could be more pickong, as they say.
"That's a bad job, David," said Tom, as he stood looking about him at the ruin caused by the hurricane; "but the telescope is all right." "Yer can't grow cowcumbers with tallow-scoops, Master Tom.
"Well, you can do that without tallow-scoops, sir; and you take my advice, don't you get looking at the sun through none o' them things, sir. Hey, but it be a weight!" he continued, raising the handles of the barrow. "Never mind; I can manage it," cried Tom. "Then I arn't going to let you, sir." "Why not?" "'Cause my muskles is hard and yours is soft, and may get stretched and strained.
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