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Skinner wrote Matt for an explanation, to which Matt replied as follows: "Do not pay any attention to the yard manager's tally. Ours is right. A certified tallyman counted 11,487,250 in, and I counted 11,487,250 out, as I have already reported. Sorry I cannot reverse my decision.
Not you, for you owe more to the tallyman. Well then, I'll tell you what I'll do with you. I'll heap 'em all on the footboard of the cart, there they are! razors, flat watch, dinner plates, rolling-pin, and away for four shillings, and I'll give you sixpence for your trouble!" This is me, the Cheap Jack.
To-day he's paying fifty and hinting more if he has to." MacRae laughed. "We'll match Gower's price till he boosts us out of the bidding," he said. "And he won't make much on his pack if he does that." "Say, Folly Bay," Jack called across to the mustard-pot carrier, "what are you paying for bluebacks?" The skipper took his eye off the tallyman counting in fish.
If you see a workman wearing a really good suit of clothes you may safely conclude that he is either leading an unnatural life that is, he is not married or that he has obtained it from a tallyman on the hire system and has not yet paid for it or that it is someone else's cast-off suit that he has bought second-hand or had given to him by some charitable person. It's the same with the food.
She had made several purchases of gewgaws, and had already paid three or four times their value, but was still in debt to the tallyman, who threatened all manner of impossible proceedings if she did not make up her arrears. Bottomless ignorance and imbecile vanity had been the girl's ruin, aided by a grave indiscretion on Peachey's part, of which he was to hear presently.
If she presided at a stall at a charitable sale of clothing, she was not disheartened if articles were snatched from under her hand, nor did she refuse loans because borrowers sometimes merely used them to evade the tallyman by getting their jewelry at cash prices.
Then, with a clamour of furious verbosity, Ada enlightened her husband on other points of Emma's behaviour. It was a long story, gathered, in the last few minutes, partly from the culprit herself, partly from her fellow-servants. Emma had got into the clutches of a jewellery tallyman, one of the fellows who sell trinkets to servant-girls on the pay-by-instalment system.
"Aw-aw-aw-aw-aw-awl silk." Mrs. Jacobs's fingers smoothed it lovingly, then it was drawn within to be instantly replaced by a green dress. Mrs. Jacobs passed the skirt slowly through her fingers. "Aw-aw-aw-aw-aw-awl silk!" she quavered mockingly. By this time Mrs. Isaacs's face was the color of the latest flag of victory. "The tallyman!" she tried to retort, but the words stuck in her throat.
Some of them had to pay a shilling a week to a tallyman or credit clothier. These were the ones who indulged in shoddy new suits at long intervals. Others bought or got their wives to buy for them their clothes at second-hand shops, 'paying off' about a shilling or so a week and not receiving the things till they were paid for.
Becky tossed her head. "I've got a new dolman," she said, turning to one of her young men who was present by special grace. "You should see me in it. I look noble." "Yes," said Mrs. Belcovitch proudly. "It shines in the sun." "Is it like the one Bessie Sugarman's got?" inquired the young man. "Bessie Sugarman!" echoed Becky scornfully. "She gets all her things from the tallyman.
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