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That is the only way to produce any effect or to make any profit." Another of his theories was that people who dwelt in or near towns never had sufficient fresh air. During one of our morning rides I remember his stopping a telegraph-boy, and asking him where he lived.
I had no intention of allowing that interesting event to occur until I had made certain necessary preparations. I was still contemplating my handiwork with a sort of fatigued pride, when a sudden sound outside attracted my attention. Getting up and looking through the shed window, I discovered a telegraph-boy standing by the hut, apparently engaged in hunting for the bell.
Knight was alone in the house with Sarah when the imperious summons of the telegraph-boy and the apparition of the orange envelope threw the domestic atmosphere into a state of cyclonic confusion.
Carlyle as they walked back to their car. "How do you propose to get that telegram, Max?" "Ask for it," was the laconic explanation. And, stripping the artifice of any elaboration, he simply asked for it and got it. The car, posted at a convenient bend in the road, gave him a warning note as the telegraph-boy approached.
Harley was a conscientious man, interested in his work, and when he gave the last page of the despatch to a telegraph-boy the speech was nearly over. He said emphatically that it was a success, that the audience was brought thoroughly under the spell, but whether this spell would endure after the candidate was gone he did not undertake to prophesy.
Observing a very small telegraph-boy in a scullery off the hall, engaged in some mysterious operations with a large saucepan, from which volumes of steam proceeded, he went towards him. By that time Phil had become pretty well acquainted with the faces of his comrades, but this boy he had not previously met with.
So Uncle Braddock was engaged as telegraph-boy, and Harry having promised him twenty cents to go to Hetertown and to return with any telegrams that were there awaiting transmission to the other side of the creek, the old man set off with his little package, in high good humor with the idea of earning money by no harder work than walking a few miles.
His powers of endurance were evidently giving way, and his grief had become both vocal and fluent in the channel of his infant years. "What's the matter, my boy?" asked Chip, "locked out, hey?" "No, bo-hoo. No, Sir, the door's blowed to and froze up, and I can't git this pos'crip' up to the office." "Oh, oh! you're the telegraph-boy, are you?" "Yes, Sir." "Most froz'n, aren't you?"
"I thought I'd just see how that dizziness was going on," said he as he came up the steps. "I'm glad you've come," said Sophia, confidentially. Since the first days of their acquaintanceship they had always been confidential. "You'll do my sister good to-day." Just as Maud was closing the door a telegraph-boy arrived, with a telegram addressed to Mrs. Scales.
Yes; only not my face!" A telegraph-boy was coming from the gate. Gyp opened the missive with the faint tremor she always felt when Summerhay was not with her. "Detained; shall be down by last train; need not come up to-morrow. When the boy was gone, she stooped down and stroked the old dog's head. "Master home all day to-morrow, Ossy master home!"
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