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One reason for this is the hand-to-mouth manner in which the bulk of the people live, with no notion of thrift. They earn their day's wage, and if anything remains above the expense of living, it is invested in gay clothing or jimcracks. Another reason is that those who could afford it have seldom any member of their household whom they can trust as housekeeper, of which more anon.
The enclosed recommendation of Madame Dupont, the elder, will tell you more. You are in equal luck with a cook. I have had him on trial a fortnight, and he is the best I ever had in the house; for cakes, pastry, and jimcracks, far superior to Anthony. In short, he is too good for you, and I have a great mind not to send him; you will be for ever giving good dinners.
Davies's lamp and spend a blissful hour in her simply furnished but pretty room, looking over the new gowns and garments and jimcracks, and so absorbed were they in this occupation that they took no heed of time; and so it happened that the good old chaplain, coming shortly after midnight over from the hospital, whither he had been summoned to the bedside of a sorely-stricken trooper, rejoiced to see that Mrs.
He was harking back to the old shed beside his father's cabin and the gay prints tacked to the worm-eaten boards. "The separate rooms can stand, son, and those little jimcracks of drawers are favourably passed on, too. And these?" Levi's thick forefinger stopped at the elevation of the first floor. Sandy gave a rich, satisfied laugh of content.
There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with. The king said it was all the more homely and more pleasanter for these fixings, and so don't disturb them. The duke's room was pretty small, but plenty good enough, and so was my cubby.
The enclosed recommendation of Madame Dupont, the elder, will tell you more. You are in equal luck with a cook. I have had him on trial a fortnight, and he is the best I ever had in the house; for cakes, pastry, and jimcracks, far superior to Anthony. In short, he is too good for you, and I have a great mind not to send him; you will be for ever giving good dinners.
"Why, suh," stated Mr. Quarles, "to my mind, Judge, there ain't no manner of doubt but whut prosperity has went to his head and turned it. He acted to me like a plum' distracted idiot. A grown man with forty thousand pounds of solid money settin' on the side of a gutter eatin' jimcracks with a passel of dirty little boys! Kin you figure it out any other way, Judge except that his mind is gone?"
Then, seven male lobbyists, at $3,000 each $21,000; one female lobbyist, $10,000; a high moral Congressman or Senator here and there the high moral ones cost more, because they. give tone to a measure say ten of these at $3,000 each, is $30,000; then a lot of small-fry country members who won't vote for anything whatever without pay say twenty at $500 apiece, is $10,000; a lot of dinners to members say $10,000 altogether; lot of jimcracks for Congressmen's wives and children those go a long way you can't sped too much money in that line well, those things cost in a lump, say $10,000 along there somewhere; and then comes your printed documents your maps, your tinted engravings, your pamphlets, your illuminated show cards, your advertisements in a hundred and fifty papers at ever so much a line because you've got to keep the papers all light or you are gone up, you know.
Then, seven male lobbyists, at $3,000 each $21,000; one female lobbyist, $10,000; a high moral Congressman or Senator here and there the high moral ones cost more, because they. give tone to a measure say ten of these at $3,000 each, is $30,000; then a lot of small-fry country members who won't vote for anything whatever without pay say twenty at $500 apiece, is $10,000; a lot of dinners to members say $10,000 altogether; lot of jimcracks for Congressmen's wives and children those go a long way you can't sped too much money in that line well, those things cost in a lump, say $10,000 along there somewhere; and then comes your printed documents your maps, your tinted engravings, your pamphlets, your illuminated show cards, your advertisements in a hundred and fifty papers at ever so much a line because you've got to keep the papers all light or you are gone up, you know.
Graham's thoughts were not very complimentary to the shrewd Yankee, but keeping his opinion to himself, he replied that he would go, suggesting that they should start immediately. "In less than five minits. You jest set down while I go to the store arter some jimcracks for the old woman," said Uncle Timothy, starting up the street, which was the last Mr. Graham saw of him for three long hours.
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