In Spain, a country rarely visited by those persons who pride themselves upon being particular, the mattress-maker is a much more necessary factor in domestic life than is the sweep or the plumber in northern lands.

I am a doctor, a prescriber of pills, a mender of bones, a plumber of pipes ...

We say "Carpenter," but we do not address a plumber as "Plumber."

It was only in the hall that Mathieu obtained from his landlord a promise that he would write to the plumber at Janville and that the roof of the pavilion should be entirely renovated, since the rain came into the bedrooms.

"I'm a respectable man, mister, plumber by trade, but" "But," I interrupted, "you can't get any work, you're cold and you haven't had anything to eat for two days, so you are walking out here in the country where we farmers have no plumbing to do.