mender

She pretended to be a cleaner and mender of lace, but she sold a good many other things.

"Nothing but supper now," said the mender of roads, with a hungry face.

It was the turn of the mender of roads to say it this time, after observing these operations.

"Never," answered the mender of roads, recovering his perpendicular.

"By his tall figure," said the mender of roads, softly, and with his finger at his nose.

"It was an indiscretion, true," nodded the white-haired Mender thoughtfully.

"That was perhaps to be expected," answered Mender reflectively.

She no longer wants to be the cook, the mender, the sweeper of the house!

As Landless turned to leave the hut the mender of nets had a sudden thought.

Across the street there resides a mender of musical instruments.