United States or Egypt ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I suppose you're goin' to do some work now you're 'ere, or are you a writer, too, like Mr. 'Inde?" "I want to be a writer," John shyly answered. "Well, there's no 'arm in it," Lizzie said, "But it ain't reg'lar. I believe in reg'lar work myself. Of course, there's no 'arm in bein' a writer, but you'd be much better with a tryde or a nice business, I should think. Reely!" "Oh, yes," John murmured.
"My word, no!" replied the little man. "I just sit here and read the Dead Bird. It's the depression in tryde, you see. There's no positions goin' that a man like me would care to look at." And he showed Norris his certificates and written characters, one from a grocer in Wooloomooloo, one from an ironmonger, and a third from a billiard saloon. "Yes," he said, "I tried bein' a billiard-marker.
"My word, no!" replied the little man. "I just sit here and read the Dead Bird. It's the depression in tryde, you see. There's no positions goin' that a man like me would care to look at." And he showed Norris his certificates and written characters, one from a grocer in Wooloomooloo, one from an ironmonger, and a third from a billiard saloon. "Yes," he said, "I tried bein' a billiard marker.
Captain Swarth swung himself into the mizzen-rigging and answered through his hands with an excellent cockney accent: "Tryde Wind o' Lunnon, Cappen Quirk, fifty-one dyes out fro' Liverpool, bound to Callao, gen'ral cargo." "You were not heading for the Horn." "Hi'm a-leakin' badly. Hi'm a-goin' to myke the coast to careen. D'ye happen to know a good place?"
"I'm out of a plyce myself," said Hemstead. "You beat me all the way and back," says Carthew. "My trouble is that I have never been in one." "I suppose you've no tryde?" asked Hemstead. "I know how to spend money," replied Carthew, "and I really do know something of horses and something of the sea. But the unions head me off; if it weren't for them, I might have had a dozen berths."
"I'm out of a plyce myself," said Hemstead. "You beat me all the way and back," says Carthew. "My trouble is that I have never been in one." "I suppose you've no tryde?" asked Hemstead. "I know how to spend money," replied Carthew, "and I really do know something of horses and something of the sea. But the unions head me off; if it weren't for them, I might have had a dozen berths."
Word Of The Day