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Updated: June 18, 2025
"'See, my man, said he, 'take this package, and rig yourself out in the toggery it contains. "I obeyed this order, and soon after stood before him, in a pair of jack-boots, with a slouching sort of tarpauling hat on my head, so that I might either have passed for a manner out of luck or a dustman. "'Well, said the lieutenant, laughing, 'now you have quite the air of the hulks about you.
I am afraid it is scarcely necessary for my father's son to remark that my father's establishment is not particularly brilliant in its housekeeping." "There is always plenty, Herbert," said I, to say something encouraging. "O yes! and so the dustman says, I believe, with the strongest approval, and so does the marine-store shop in the back street.
His head was defended from the weather by what is technically called a south west, pronounced sow west, cap, which is in shape like the thatch of a dustman, composed of canvass, well tarred, with no snout, but having a long flap hanging down the back to carry the rain over the cape of the jacket. His chin was embedded in a red comforter that rose to his ears.
It would take years to work the thing and get down to the footing of one water supply and an ambidextrous dustman on the lines of perfect justice and satisfactoriness all round.
Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in; whereupon a dirty, slipshod girl in black cotton stockings, who might have passed for the neglected daughter of a superannuated dustman in very reduced circumstances, thrust in her head, and said 'Please, Mister Sawyer, Missis Raddle wants to speak to you. Before Mr.
Jolly good thing for him. Why he might be anything here! And as if I wouldn't rather be a dustman in England than a " "Philip, my dear boy! do rest do go to bed," cried his mother imploringly, coming into the room with her soft hurrying step. "It's going on for one o'clock. Elizabeth mustn't keep you talking like this!"
It was as the day went on that the clouds gathered, and the brightness of the morning became obscured. One might have said that the shadows of avarice and distrust lengthened as his own shadow lengthened, and that the night closed around him gradually. But, one morning long afterwards to be remembered, it was black midnight with the Golden Dustman when he first appeared.
No poor dustman or sweep in London could have cut a more ridiculous figure; which may account for the impudence of the man who fired at me from behind the tree, who certainly must have taken me for some menial servant who had stolen his master's clothes. Having communicated my orders, my next object was the care of my faithful horse.
The Golden Dustman seeming to be engaged in some abstruse calculation, Mr Wegg assisted him with the following additional items. 'There was, further, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker. Ah! When a man thinks of the loss of such patronage as that; when a man finds so fair a garden rooted up by pigs; he finds it hard indeed, without going high, to work it into money.
All day she worked with the thought of coming back to him at night; but with night came the dustman, and in spite of her games and stories Tommy's blue eyes would get full of the sleep-dust. Tonight, however, he was awake and talkative. "Ain't I dot no muvver?" he asked. "No," said Lovey Mary, after a pause. "Didn't I never had no muvver?"
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