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How could she expect to bring him up in such poor, narrow circumstances, and with all this toiling and moiling? She would only need to give up a part of her large wages to the tinsmith, and they would look well after the boy.
She picked up my arms and legs and head, and made a bundle of them and carried them to the tinsmith, who set to work and made me a fine body of pure tin. When he had joined the arms and legs to the body, and set my head in the tin collar, I was a much better man than ever, for my body could not ache or pain me, and I was so beautiful and bright that I had no need of clothing.
But, when they came to this residence by the forest's edge, the tinsmith was not at home. It was a pretty place, all painted dark blue with trimmings of lighter blue. There was a neat blue fence around the yard and several blue benches had been placed underneath the shady blue trees which marked the line between forest and plain.
Others are real friendly, like the old fellow who told me about the buried treasure. He was almost dead of fever when I found him in his little palmetto shack. I got medicine for him, stayed until he was well. That's why he told me about the gold." "Think of that!" says Mrs. Mumford. "He had been a pirate himself, hadn't he?" "Well, hardly," says Rupert. "A tinsmith, I think he told me.
Here, also for it is a big forest Nimmie Amee lived with the Wicked Witch, and at the other edge of the trees stands the cottage of my friend Ku-Klip, the famous tinsmith who made my present beautiful form." "He must be a clever workman," declared Woot, admiringly. "He is simply wonderful," declared the Tin Woodman. "I shall be glad to make his acquaintance," said Woot.
She was quite capable of keeping ten suitors in their proper place, and was useful for anything; she could watch the dead and the sick then why not for once the beauty of a young girl? She was the widow of the tinsmith Lange; she had married all her children, and so was ready to come to the service of her friends and acquaintances.
"A tinsmith!" replied I, turning pale. "Then my worse fears are realized!" The landlord looked surprised, and inquired what I meant. I told him, and had a laugh from him for my pains. But this was not the worst of it.
In the autumn of 1853 the poet visited Ardtornish on the Sound of Mull, a beautiful place endeared to him who now writes by the earliest associations. It chanced to him to pass his holidays there just when Tennyson and Mr Palgrave had left "Mr Tinsmith and Mr Pancake," as Robert the boatman, a very black Celt, called them.
So we named our little kid Mary to be like our boat, and as soon as she was big enough, I taught 'er all my mother had taught me, and when she was about eight year old my Tom's great-uncle James, who was a tinsmith by trade, left us a bit of money over L 200 it were.
Uncle Robert lifted Susie out of the wagon and hitched Nell to a post. The tinsmith rose to his feet, smiling to Susie, who said: "This is my Uncle Robert, Mr. Mills. We've come to have a rain-gauge made." "Good morning," said Uncle Robert, turning to Mr. Mills, who looked as if he thought rain gauges were not exactly in his line. "Can you spare us a little time this morning?
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