Colin Clink, Volume 1 (of 3)

Colin a situation.-Miss Maria Sowersoft and Mr. Samue

ed patches, selected on account of their situation, and inclosed with low stone walls, in order to entitle them to the denomination of fields. Owing to the abundance of gorse, or whins, with which the uncultivated parts of this district were overgrown, it had obtained the character

ttle distance. Indeed, from a combination of circumstances unfavourable to herself, she found some difficulty in getting suited from the immediate neighbourhood where she was known. If the boy happened to be without friends to interfere between him and his employer, all the better. Peace would thereby be much more certainly secured; besides that, it would be all the greater charity to employ such a boy in a plac

e knew very well, that if he had possessed the power to make a situation for Master Colin Clink exactly after the model of his own fancy, he could not h

, while the operation proceeded, with all the confidence and self-satisfaction of a master of the house. This worthy was the head farming-man, or director-general of the whole establishment, not excluding Miss Maria herself; for he exercised a very sovereign sway, not only over everything done, and over every person empl

rs cloud-capped towers, and crumbles palaces, had fretted away some portion of

pan, and beheld a clean napkin spread half over the table, with one knife and for

hed, and his appetite gets as keen as mustard. Really, I do say sometimes I wonder how he manages to be so well as he is: but then, you know, he is used to it, and I generally do him up a bit of something hot about nine or ten o'clock, that

therefore Miss Sowersoft remained in an attitude of expectation, watching his

fteen years old, but as strong as an unbroke filly; he had sense enough to learn anything; had no friends, only one, in the shape of a helpless mother, so that Miss Sowersoft need not fear being crossed by anybody's meddling; and, at the same time, he thought that by a little dexterous management she might contrive to obtain him for an old song. For several reasons, which it would be needles

n the chaise-cart on the following day. Just as Mr. Longstaff was passing out at the door, he was invited in again to take a glass of wine; an appe

on the table close under the nose of Mr. Palethorpe, "

he, filling it to the brim, "but I

ng as if you had had enough, according to your account; though you eat and

took off his wine at a gulp, satisfied, in the innocence of his own heart, that no reflections whatever could be made upon him

rance to a hen-roost, "I 'll just go again a bit, and see how them men's getting on. They do nought but look about 'em whe

opinion is always consulted by everybody in the neighbourhood; but then, you know, if they buy, he gets a trifle for his judgment, and so that helps to make him up a little for his own purse. I could trust him with every penny I possess, I'm sure. He sells out and buys in everything we have; and I never yet lost a single farthing by anything

bserved that it was high time for him to be in his saddle again. On which Miss Sowersoft checked herself for

the way intended,-for he learned while there a few experimental lessons in the art of living in the world, which lasted him during the whol