And the last that the present writer heard of them was this, that they had bought outright the Mary of Argyle and her nets from the banker; and that they were building for themselves a small stone cottage on the slope of the hill above Erisaig; and that Daft Sandy had been taken away from the persecution of the harbour boys to become a sort of general major-domo-cook, gardener, and mender of nets.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
The net-mender pursued the subject with the kind of gravity on him that always comes on a seaman when drowning is under discussion.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
She is a little rosy wrinkled creature officially-though no other than officially-pertaining to sixty years; mender of lace, seller of extracts, and music teacher, but of the three she thinks of the last as her true vocation.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale