Tinker just raised her paw and kept her back and sat there as long as she pleased.
Tinker was well fed; and as she had never seen hens and chickens killed, she treated them as if their right to live could not be questioned.
As soon as she saw she was appreciated, Tinker left her post, and there is no doubt the chickens wished their mother had fur on her rather than stiff feathers.
They did say that Tinker had been known to help herself to a little, sometimes, before the good Brindle had been milked.
One day the hens were all out in the large field back of the house, when Tinker was walking about on a voyage of discovery.
The unusual noise drew out the master, who was so well pleased that he called his wife to see Tinker in her position as chicken nurse.
A tinker woman came in and offered to tell the girls their fortunes, and I had to cross her hand with silver.
I think I'd have got out of Arvach with safety, only a dead-drunk tinker wakened up and knew me, and he gave a yell that brought the piper hot-foot after me.
However Jonathan Tinker had fallen in his esteem as a man, he had even risen as literature.
Jonathan Tinker was plainly part of the horrible tyranny which we all know exists on shipboard; and his listener respected him the more that, though he had heart enough to be ashamed of it, he was too honest not to own it.
Julia Tinkerremained open-mouthed but mute; and the other was puzzled at the want of feeling shown, which he could not account for even as a national trait.
Not a soul among those they asked had ever heard of a Mr. Hapford,--far less of a Julia Tinker living with him.
The hardest captain that Jonathan Tinker ever sailed with was Captain Gooding of the Cape.
The author gives two reasons why Jonathan Tinker did not tell the truth: what seems to you the real reason?
It had got to be so that no man could ship second mate under Captain Gooding; and Jonathan Tinker was with him only one voyage.
It will be conceded that, as an illustration of the King James and the Tinker legend, this is lacking in some of those intimate touches that would make the incident live again.
The Government provides Mr. Tinkerwith any kind of transportation he needs.
Maude Tinker smoothed out my palm, rubbing her thumb over it as if to clear away a veil of mystery, and bent close over it, her dark face intense.
Presently the tinker came to himself with a prodigious yawn, and reached at once for another drink.
Where our Sheriff has failed, and the stout Guy of Gisborne, and many more beside, it behoves not a mere tinker to succeed.
When he did get it in hand, the tinker had reached him thrice with resounding thwacks.
In the end the tinkerfell sound asleep while in the act of trying to get a tankard to his lips.
Now upon that same day, while the Sheriff's daughter was racking her brains for a scheme, there came to the Mansion House a strolling tinker named Middle, a great gossip and braggart.
All that singular being wanted was the open air, and freedom to play his tin whistle, fondle his dogs, roam in the woods, and tinker up pots and kettles.
Odo is a tinker and a whistler; he is at home among the gipsies and the woods, playing on his tin whistle, mending pots and kettles.
To find that her steps were watched and followed by a wild-looking tramp, or tinker fellow, bent upon carrying off the dog was, to say the least, extremely unpleasant.
Morgan, and are now, finally, being edited, together with such other letters as are available, by Professor Tinker of Yale.
I once spent some hours with the doctor in company with my friend Tinker--not the great Tinker who plays ball for a bank president's wage, but the less famous Tinker, Professor of English at Yale.
For the Tinker had rhymed, as the Prophet foretold, And a light was let in on the errors of old.
And here in the mount lives the queer tinker man With his little red dog and his Emily Arm.
With his feet in the grass, and his back to a tree, Merry as only a tinker can be, Busily tinkering, mending a pan, Singing as only a merry man can .
Into the meadow and over the stile, Off went the tinker man, singing the while; Down by the bracken patch, over the hill, With the little red dog at the heel of him still.
And what shall we answer our Lord the King If never a tinker hence we bring, To tinker a kingdom so sore amiss?
Then, lo, at the Mayor's front door in the morn A tinker called out, and a Movement was born.
Hoots for the Tinker tore the air, As Sym went, wisely, otherwhere.
And they whisper a tale of a tinker man, Who lives in the mount with his Emily Ann.
By the palace gates A sorrowing king for a tinker waits.
They rode for a day to the hills in the East, But signs of a tinker saw never the least.
And a blessing and boon for a poor tinker man Looks out from the eyes of my Emily Ann.
Then, up from the grass, where he sat by his tree, The voice of the Tinker rose fearless and free.
Toil to fetch a tinkerthrough the squalor of San Niccolò, and there shall fall on you the shadow of the bell-tower where the old sacristan saved to the world the genius of the Night and Day.
The issue of the contest was long doubtful, but, the tinker was so persevering, that Tom confessed he was fairly vanquished; and they then went home together, and were sworn brothers in arms ever afterwards.
When they arrived there, Tom and the tinker marched up to the leaders of the multitude, and asked them the reason of their disturbing the government.
They started for this purpose in company, Tom armed with his two-handed sword, and the tinker with his long pikestaff.
The tinker and Tom immediately promised their assistance, and they went out as soon as it was day, armed with their clubs, the sheriff conducting them to the rendezvous of the rebels.
But the tinker was no man to succumb, and as rudely answered, "What's that to you?
Tom was not particularly courteous; it may readily be supposed that his unvarying successes had made him rather overbearing; and he somewhat rudely asked the tinker what was his business there.
At last the Tinker fell asleep too, having added so much to his former burden that he was no longer able to stand under it.
To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life.
In our days, a rough tinker who could say as much for himself after he had grown to manhood, would be regarded as a model of self-restraint.
Common sense will call this disease, and will think impatiently that the young tinker would have done better to attend to his business.
His language was not ours: 'T is my belief, God spoke: no tinkerhas such powers.
The tinker bought hangings for a theatre, and he called the show Bumbuku-Chagama.
The tinker and the tea-kettle became the best of friends.
At last the tinker retired from business, and to him the tea-kettle came with tears in its bright eyes.
So the tinker presented it as a very sacred treasure to the temple, and the half of his wealth with it.
The priest sold the tea-kettle to a tinker and got for it twenty copper coins.
The tinkerwas a happy man and carried home the kettle.
But God met him there by His ministry, so that he came out much changed; and would by his good will hear none but the tinker for a long time after, he himself becoming a very eminent preacher in that country afterwards.
Curiosity to hear the once profane tinker preach was not one of the least prevalent motives.
For the new readings of "Phalaris," "he likens me to a bungling tinker mending old kettles.
One of the bears mentioned above happened to get loose, and was running along the street in which a tinker was gravely walking.
Bunyan, a poor tinker and lay preacher, reflects the tremendous spiritual ferment among the common people.
His works were then known only to humble readers, and not until long years had passed did critics awaken to the fact that one of England's most powerful and original writers had passed away with the poortinker of Elstow.
