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In the morning, with a sooty face, leather apron, a dejected countenance, and a woollen cap, he was generously relieved as an unfortunate blacksmith, whose all had been consumed by fire: in the afternoon he exchanged his logs for crutches; his countenance was now pale and sickly, his gestures very expressive of pain, his complaints lamentable, a poor unfortunate tinner, disabled from maintaining himself, a wife, and seven children, by the damps and hardships he had suffered in the mines; and so well did he paint his distress, that the disabled tinner was now as generously relieved as the unfortunate blacksmith had been in the morning.
"Most likely a travelling tinker chap, sir, that comes this way now and again," answered the policeman. "Name of Creasy Tinner Creasy, the folks call him. He's come here for many a year, at odd times. Camps out with his pony and cart, and goes round the villages and farmsteads, seeing if there's aught to mend, and selling 'em pots and pans and such-like. Stops a week or two sometimes longer."
But there 'twas a poor spirit that never rejoiced. "Which do you belong to?" Taffy nodded toward the mine-chimneys on the sky-line high on their left, which hid the sea, though it lay less than half a mile away and the roar of it was in their ears just such a roar as the train makes when rushing through a tunnel. "Bless you, I'm a tinner. I belong to Wheal Gooniver, up the valley.
How admirable is the Arab who could not contain himself for thinking of the way his fruit trees bore, and the tinner of pots who improved his trade with song, and the American who said that the Matterhorn was surprising. There is something restrained and credible in Mr. Belloc's account of these curious beings. He seems to sit still and savour their conversation: he hardly reports his own.
He built on the old foundations, he gave to the laymen a power at that time blindly denied them by the Church the power which Irish and Welsh and Breton missionary saints of old had vested in them. Wesley himself a giant made wise use of the strong where he found them, and if a man tinker or tinner, fisher or jowster could preach and grip an audience, that man might do so.
"Time was when they did use to thrash a new-married couple to bed," said Mr. Trevennick. "'Twas an amoosin' carcumstance an' I've 'elped at many, but them good auld doin's is dyin' out fast." Mrs. Tregenza was discussing the bridegroom's family. "He be a poor Billy-be-damned sort o' feller, I've allus heard, an' awnly a common tinner, though his faither were a grass cap'n at Levant Mine."
We tried to tell her that more important to us than the influence of the Celtic element on our national life and literature was the fact that John Jones of Lebo that is to say, red John, as distinguished from black John or Jones the tinner, or Jones of the Possum Holler settlement was in town with a load of hay.
Neale, you might mention that we're out and about." He and his companion went off by a different path; at the top of a rise in the ground the policeman turned again. "Tinner!" he called. "Hullo?" answered Creasy. "If you should hear or find aught," said the policeman, "come to me, you know." "All right!" assented Creasy. He picked up some wood and replenished his fire.
Intending to dine one day at a certain tavern, he ordered beforehand a dinner for three. At the hour appointed he sat down to the table and expressed astonishment that the dinner was not brought up. The waiter explained that he would begin serving when the company arrived. "Den pring up de tinner brestissimo," replied Handel, "I am de gombany." Lulli never forsook the casserole.
At last it began to leak, and a tinner sent a man around to find the hole. He spent a week on that roof, and he spread half a ton of solder over it, but still it leaked. And finally, when the snow came, the water trickled down the wall and ran into an eight-hundred-dollar piano, which will be closed out at a low figure to anybody who wants mahogany kindling-wood.
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