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Updated: June 13, 2025
If he had thus far failed to lessen his rotundity, he had at least stopped its growth, a fact of which he made sure once a month by weighing himself on the scales of the Custom House, where a friend of his held the post of weigher. His physician had also recommended sea- bathing.
The auditor, who takes the accounts, and makes them up. 6. The surveyor-general, who takes care that the fineness be not altered in the melting. And, 7, the weigher and teller. The Jewel-office, where the regalia are reposited, stands near the east end of the Armoury.
Later in the evening Phillips found Tom and Jerry; his color was deeper than usual, his eyes were unnaturally bright. "I'm obliged to you," he told them, "but I've taken a job as weigher with Miller & Best. Good luck, and I hope you strike it rich." When he had gone Tom shook his head. His face was clouded with regret and, too, with a vague expression of surprise. "Too bad," he said.
Then followed a sarcastic postscript, over which the reader may smile: "P.S. By private letter from Boston, we are informed, that the bakers are under great apprehensions of being forbid baking any more bread, unless they will submit to the Secretary as supervisor general and weigher of the dough, before it is baked into bread and offered to sale."
The Ibis was sacred to him, and he was usually represented as Ibis-headed. Ra created him "a beautiful light to show the name of his evil enemy." Originally the Dfoon-god, he became the lord of time and measure. He is the weigher, the philosopher among the gods, the lord of writing, of art and of learning. "Who is master," asked Nebsecht, "excepting God?
The Virgin, who had tensed unconsciously till her muscles hurt her, relaxed. While French Louis murmured reverently: "M'sieu Daylight, salut! Ay am one beeg baby. You are one beeg man." Daylight dropped his burden, leaped to the floor, and headed for the bar. "Weigh in!" he cried, tossing his sack to the weigher, who transferred to it four hundred dollars from the sacks of the two losers.
Normally and in private life he was the weigher for the Blue Jay; and Ormsby was directed to the scale shanty which served as the weigher's office. The interview was brief and conclusive; was little more than a rapid fire of question and answer; and for the greater part the sheriff's affirmatives were heartily eager.
At last, after about eight months of anxious waiting, the Armenian and the Jew were summoned to appear before the court. Mehmet Ali Pasha, in opening the case, called in the Public Weigher and had them weighed again. On this occasion it was found that the Armenian had decreased, now only weighing fifty okes, for worry makes a man grow thin; but the Jew, on the contrary, had put on several okes.
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