annot the work be done in the day I don't know."
"You cannot say less," said Eylwin Jones. "Pay they ought for this, the
irreligious couple. As the English proverb--'There's no gratitude in the
poor.'"
"Another serious piece of picking have I," continued Harries. "I saw
Tim sticking on hoarding. 'What, dear me,' I mumbled between the
teeth--I don't speech to myself, man, as usual. The Apostles did, now.
They wrote their minds. Benefit for many if I put down my religious
thinks for a second New Testament. What say you, Eylwin Jones? Lots of
says very clever I can give you--'is he sticking?' A biggish paper was
the black pasting about Walham Green Music Hall. What do you mean for
that? And the posters for my between season's sale were waiting to go
out."
Rebuked, Tim and Martha left over sinning: and Tim put Enoch Harries'
posters in places where they should not have been put, wherefore Enoch
smiled upon him.
"Try will I some further," said Tim by and by.
"Don't you crave too much," advised Martha. "The Bad Man craved the
pulpit of the Big Man."
"Shut your backhead. Out of school will Winnie be very near now."
"Speak clear."
"Ask Enoch Harries will I to make her his servant."
"Be modest in your manner," Martha warned her husband. "Man grand is
Enoch."
"Needing servants hap he does."
"Perhaps, iss; perhaps, no."
"Cute is Winnie," said Tim; "and quick. Sense she has."
Tim addressed Enoch, and Enoch answered: "Blabber you do to me, why for?
Send your old female to Mishtress Harries. Order you her to go quite
respectable."
Curtsying before Mrs. Harries, Martha said: "I am Tim Dafis' wife."
"Oh, really. The person that is in charge of that funny little Welsh
chapel." Mrs. Harries sat at a table. "Give me your girl's name, age,
and names of previous employers for references." Having written all
that Martha said, she remarked: "We are moving next week to a large
establishment in Thornton East. I am going to call it Windsor. Of course
the husband and I will go to the English church. I thought I could take
your girl with me to Windsor."
"The titcher give her an excellent character."
"I'll find that out for myself. Well, as you are so poor, I'll give her
a trial. I'll pay her five pounds a year and her keep. I do hope she is
ladylike."
Martha told Tim that which Mrs. Harries had said, and Tim observed: "I
will rejoice in a bit of prayer."
"Iss," Martha agreed. "In the parlor of the preac
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