But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent. |
But more of the same is now needed from the portly packman who never really had the chance to shine at Wigan. |
The packman was immediately commanded to halt, and lay his packs upon the ground. |
His early career was varied, and he was in succession a packman, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. |
Eventually he reached Dewsbury, where he became a travelling packman, selling cheap jewellery and household essentials at rural fairs. |
You wad think she never had heard o' Willie Broonclod, the packman, that she sloped when she left doon the country. |