Some grumble but all submit, and the diddler goes home a wealthier man by some fifty or sixty dollars well earned. |
The brandy and water is furnished and imbibed, and the diddler makes his way to the door. |
The diddler approaches the bar of a tavern, and demands a couple of twists of tobacco. |
Many's the diddler who's passed a whole season thus, dead-heading it on the steamers of the Crescent City. |
Were he not a diddler, he would be a maker of patent rat-traps or an angler for trout. |