His early career was varied, and he was in succession a packman, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. |
But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent. |
L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road. |
She and her mother take refuge with the loyal friend of her childhood, the packman Bob Jakins. |
In Thursbitch, Turner is a packman, transporting salt and silk. |
But more of the same is now needed from the portly packman who never really had the chance to shine at Wigan. |