We intended to begin moving yesterday, and up to the very last moment on Saturday hoped to be able to do so, but the painters, and carpenters, and the plumbers combined against us, and we are in the spot where you saw us when last in Chicago.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The work that remains for the carpenters and for the plumbers to do is of a pottering character, just enough and of just such a character as to be slow, and, consequently, exasperating.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
They came in with the plumbers, sir, at half-past eight.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon