It was a gorgeous thingrather the shape of a dustman's helmet, with a large scarlet bird nestling on one side of it, sheltered by some heavy undergrowth.

It was because the dustman did not come; It was because our cat was overfed, And, gorged with some superior pabulum, Declined to touch the cod's disgusting head; It was because the weather was too warm To hide the horror in the refuse-bin, And too intense the perfume of its form, My wife commanded me to do the sin, To take and cast it in the twinkling Thames A practice which the neighbourhood condemns.

Conceive the roars with which this magnificent figure would be received into the bosom of a poor-house detachment sent out to attack the stones on some new line of road, or a fatigue party of dustmen sent upon secret service.

II.The Golden Dustman Mr. Boffin, a broad, round-shouldered, one-sided old fellow in mourning, dressed in a pea overcoat, and wearing thick leather gaiters, and gloves like a hedger's, came ambling towards the street corner where Silas Wegg sat at his stall.

I meet you at once, free and fair, withDone, for double the money!" From that night Silas Wegg came to read at Boffin's Boweror Harmony Jail, as the house was formerly calledand he soon learnt that his employer was no other than the inheritor of old Harmon's property, and that he was known as the Golden Dustman.

II.The Golden Dustman Deteriorates Miss Bella Wilfer was conscious that she was growing mercenary.

" Bella parted from her father, and returned to the Boffins, to find fresh proofs of the deterioration of the Golden Dustman.

The crisis came one morning when the Golden Dustman's bearing towards Rokesmith was even more arrogant and offensive than it had been before.

A crowd of thieves and vagabonds, of dustmen and rag-pickers, with four or five gold bands on their sleeves and caps, (the insignia of officers of the National Guard), were hurrying along down the grand staircase, chewing "imperiales," spitting, and repeating the old jokes of '93.

You do not find the pitman, the dustman, or the bargee puling for bayonet exercise to make them hard, and if our nervous gentlemen were all serving the State in those capacities, they might even approach their addition sums in "Dreadnoughts" without a tremor.

what a wondrous powerful spell Punch holds o'er Dustman and his bell; And scolding Wife with clapper still The Landlord quits awhile his till, While Pot-boy, busiest of the bunch, Steals pence for self, and beer for Punch.

A dustman perambulates the road on the Braintree side, and canned food becomes possible and convenient therefore.

Bocking, less fortunate than its neighbour, has no dustman apparently, and is left with the tin on its hands.

Two dustmen were lately disputing the difference between bishop and negus.

BOFFIN (Nicodemus), "the golden dustman," foreman of old John Harmon, dustman and miser.

BOFFIN (Nicodemus), "the golden dustman," foreman of old John Harmon, dustman and miser.

Being residuary legatee of John Harmon, dustman, he came in for £100,000.

She was a fat, smiling, good-tempered creature, the servant of old John Harmon, dustman and miser, and very kind to the miser's son (young John Harmon).

She vanished suddenly, and everybody thought she had eloped with the Russian Duke B (he had been paying her marked attention), but it turned out afterwards that she had married a dustman.

We are waiting for our poet, he who will sing to us fearlessly of the rude industry of dustmen and the comestible glories of the marketplaces.

In form the Leper is old English, the colouring is Baudelaire, but the rude industry of the dustmen and the comestible glories of the market-place shall be mine.

Dustman and nightman issue their prospectus.

We are waiting for our poet, he who will sing to us fearlessly of the rude industry of dustmen and the comestible glories of the market-places.

In form the Leper is old English, the colouring is Baudelaire, but the rude industry of the dustmen and the comestible glories of the market-place shall be mine.

If he had known that I was in so reduced a state that I should have enjoyed a colloquy with a chimney-sweep, and not despised exchanging opinions with a dustman, he would not have thought my admission worth much.