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Updated: June 22, 2025
"It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, fitted with a cap at either end, to make it self-lighting. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?"
You have a plumber's kit; haven't you, Pop?" the manager called to Pop Snooks, the property man, who was obliged, on short notice, to provide anything from a diamond ring to a rustic bridge. "All right for the plumber!" called Pop. "Have it for you in a minute." "And, Mr. Sneed," called the manager to another actor. "You are supposed to be the householder whose water pipe has burst.
If the plumber's helper, who was sent to cure a bathtub of leaking in the house next door, had not made a mistake and come to the wrong number; and if they, in the haste of flight, had not left an area door unfastened; and if this young plumbing apprentice, stumbling his way upstairs on the hunt for the misbehaving drain, had not opened the white enameled door and found inside there what he did find if this small sequence of incidents had not occurred as it did and when it did, or if only it had been delayed another twenty-four hours, or even twelve, everything might have turned out differently.
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability; and despite her surface-sophistication her notion of amusement was hardly less innocent than when she had hung on the plumber's fence with Indiana Frusk.
Such things as taxes and unexpected plumber's bills did not present themselves to his mind, and when he presently found himself in debt, he went so far as to wonder if she might not be able to help him out, temporarily, of course. It was not till matters had grown desperate that he decided to do this.
"If she sent for him," he went on, "he'd break all speed laws getting up here, and if he came for her of his own accord if she thought he did that she'd be in his arms so quick that she'd make a bounding antelope look like a plumber's assistant going back for his tools!" Fanny looked puzzled. She did not quite understand his meaning. "What do you mean?" she asked.
The natural and right ways of earning your living in the country are much jollier than town ones, too; sowing and reaping, and doing things with animals, are much better sport than fishmongering or bakering or oil-shopping, and those sort of things, except, of course, a plumber's and gasfitter's, and he is the same in town or country most interesting and like an engineer.
To my way o' thinkin', it'd be a tie, an' no thanks to your nose." "Well, I only follow the plumber's directions. He guarantees his work and materials, but he says acids will roughen the surface of anything enamel or marble or whatever it may be. I'm sure you'll be careful in the future, now I have spoken, and er how are you getting on these days? How are you and your husband and the children?"
"Love in a cottage? is it thus the poet turns his lay? That's damn' nonsense! I tell you, even in a cottage the plumber's bill has to be paid, and the grocer's little account settled every month. Yes, by gad, and even if you elect to live on bread and cheese and kisses, you'll find Camembert a bit more to your taste than Sweitzer."
No outsider comes in contact with things as they are. No outsider in Atlanta has ever seen the dungeons." G.W., formerly employed in the prison, says that "the hole near the plumber's shop was built while Morse, the banker, was in the prison, for I helped build it, and the warden, with another official, was down to see it at ten in the morning."
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