The clockmaker; or The sayings and doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville [by T.C. Haliburton].Richard Bentley, 1848 - 160 pages |
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Page 30 - Tom's head, which, however, he dared not put into execution himself; but "a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse,
Page 141 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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Page 8 - ... to surrender it voluntarily. Of fifteen thousand sold by myself and partners in this Province, twelve thousand were left in this manner, and only ten clocks were ever returned -when we called for them they invariably bought them. We trust to 'soft sawder' to get them into the house, and to 'human natur' that they never come out of it.
Page 6 - But how is it, said I, that you manage to sell such an immense number of clocks, (which certainly cannot be called necessary articles) among a people with whom there seems to be so great a scarcity of money? Mr. Slick paused, as if considering the propriety of answering the question, and looking me in the face, said, in a confidential tone, Why, I don't care if I do tell you, for the market is glutted, and I shall quit this circuit. It is done by a knowledge of soft sawder and human natur. But here...
Page 29 - I don't like to hear you run down King Solomon neither; perhaps he warnt quite so wise as Uncle Sam, but then...
Page 7 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; ftft When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 6 - Too old, said the Deacon, too old for all those speculations. — Old, repeated the Clockmaker, not you, why you are worth half a dozen of the young men we see, nowa-days, you are young enough to have — here he said something in a lower tone of voice, which I did not distinctly hear ; but whatever it was, the Deacon was pleased, he smiled, and said he did not think of such things now. But your beasts, dear me, your beasts must be put in and have a feed...
Page 8 - I'll tell you what, Mrs. Flint, I'll leave the clock in your care till I return on my way to the States — I'll set it a going and put it to the right time. As soon as this operation was performed, he delivered the key to the Deacon with a sort of serio-comic injunction to wind up the clock every Saturday night, which Mrs. Flint said she would take care should be done, and promised to remind her husband of it, in case he should chance to forget it. I call 'human natur!