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He thought the case so curious, that he laid it briefly before the boy, who, however he might have been inwardly affected, was sufficiently true to the national traditions not to make the smallest conceivable outward sign of concern in it. At home, however, the contributor related his adventures and the story of Tinker's life, adding the fact that he had just found out where Mr. Hapford lived.
Good selections are found also in Brooke's History of Early English Literature, and Morley's English Writers, vols. 1 and 2. Beowulf. Prose. A few paragraphs of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Manly's English Prose; translations in Cook and Tinker's Old English Prose.
The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work.
"Free o' the Folk, lass? Lord, here's j'y! But what of old Azor that witch o' darkness?" "Her too, Jerry." "How, lass, how so?" Here Diana reached her hand to me and I stepped into the Tinker's purview. "He did it for me, Jerry." "Lord!" exclaimed the Tinker, falling back a step. "Lord love me a boy! A lad at last!
"What is the matter with her?" asked Mrs. Hedgehog. "I was curious to know myself," said I, "and from what I have overheard, I think I can inform you. She is the tinker's mother, and judging from what he said the other night, was not by any means indulgent to him when he was a child.
Sometimes I hurried on at breathless speed, sometimes crept on slow, unwilling feet, sometimes stood motionless to stare blindly about me, raged at and torn by conflicting thoughts ... agonising ... irresolute. How long I wandered thus I cannot say, but the sun was low when, amid the leafy whispering of familiar tree, I heard the cheery ring of the Tinker's anvil.
John Owen, when he had the opportunity, embraced it with pleasure, and sat at the feet of the unlearned, but eloquent tinker. Charles II, hearing of it, asked the learned D.D., 'How a man of his great erudition could sit to hear a tinker preach? to which the doctor replied, 'May it please your Majesty, if I could possess the tinker's abilities, I would gladly give in exchange all my learning.
"Ay; but that was in consequence of my riding by balance instead of gripping with my legs," replied Dickens; "you see, I had taken seven lessons in riding at the school in Bidborough Street, Burton Crescent, and they always told me to balance myself equally on the saddle, and harden my heart, and ride at whatever came in the way; and the tinker's tent coming first, why, naturally enough, I went at it.
As the river flowed between the world of roofs, and the roar of human passions on either side, so in those two hearts flowed Thought and all they knew of London was its shadow. There appeared in the "Beehive" certain very truculent political papers, papers very like the tracts in the tinker's bag.
He's too long dead to deny any claim I might put on him, so devil a word will I be saying. Only if ye should find by chance, any time, that I'd rather fight with my wits than my fists, ye can lay that to Dan's door; along with the stubbornness of a tinker's ass." People had been known to pry into her religion; and on these Patsy smiled indulgently as one does sometimes on overcurious children.
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