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Early in the century, Woodlands, then known as Luttrellstown, became the property of Luke White, one of the most remarkable men that Ireland has produced. In 1778, Luke White was in the habit of buying cheap odds and ends of literature from a bookseller, named Warren, in Belfast to peddle about the country. In 1798 he loaned the Irish government, then in great difficulty, a million of pounds! Mr.
And such is the high personal honor of the average Parisian news gatherer that one Paris morning paper, which specializes in actual news as counterdistinguished from the other Paris papers which rely upon political screeds to fill their columns, locks its doors and disconnects its telephones at 8 o'clock in the evening, so that reporters coming in after that hour must stay in till press time lest some of them such is the fear will peddle all the exclusive stories off to less enterprising contemporaries.
"Sure, I c'n swim real good, mebbe not so good as Uncle Jack but-I wanna peddle all alone by myself." The crunching of the gravel under heavy steps interrupted the two pals. Big, blond, athletic John Matthews was coming down the embankment that led from the rustic sprawling cabin. "John," said Professor Brierly, gravely, "Thomas here, has a complaint against you." "Zat so?"
He rose from his seat, and fixed his eyes rather sternly upon the little candy merchant, who began to think she had made a bad mistake, though all the time she had intended to do a kind act. "What have I done, Katy, that you should insult me? Do you think I have sunk so low as to peddle candy about the streets?" said he, contemptuously.
'But that ain't what "'Hold on a bit, interrupted the clerk. 'First thing is a license. "'I've got something more important, just now, urged the peddler. 'I want to tell you about "'First things first, persisted our efficient clerk. 'You must pay a license to peddle in this county. "'But I don't want to peddle now. I want to lodge "'One thing at a time.
I says all ri' old top, if you look at it that way I guess I can bear up through the heat of the day without your assistance, an' if it's just the same to you I will toddle ri' along and peddle my matches. "Wilbur pricks up his ears at those few words and tries to copper his remarks, but not for a minute could I see through the fog.
Sometimes he would get behind a Board Fence to see the Wife of the Postmaster break off a Yellow Rose and pass it over the Gate to the Superintendent of the High School. Then he would Hustle out on his Beat and ask People if they had heard the Talk that was Going Around. Of course it Grieved him to be compelled to Peddle such Stories, but he had to do it in the Interests of Morality.
Tiara accepted charge of Earl and in her faithful hands we leave him for the present. Out of Joint With His Times. "Jedge, I'd lack to mek' er few dimes. Ken I peddle limonade nigh de co't 'ouse do', sah, yer honah?" The judge looked with a kindly eye upon the rather small, aged Negro, who made the above request.
Remembering these things the idle young "flatty" turned and looked at the green-coated and sunken-shouldered figure, touched into some rough pity by the wordless pathos of an existence which seemed without aim or reason. "Batty, how long 're yuh going to peddle glue, anyway?" he suddenly asked. The glue-peddler, watching the crowds that drifted by him, did not answer.
Men, women, and children are employed to peddle the tickets, cripples especially being pressed into the service in the hope of exciting the sympathies of strangers and thus creating purchasers. It may be said to be about the only prosperous business at present going on in this thoroughly demoralized island.
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