basket-maker

Writing in 1938, H. J. Massingham describes his visit to an ordinary English village basket-maker.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Writing in 1938, H. J. Massingham describes his visit to an ordinary English village basket-maker.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

By trade I am a basket-maker, like many another ‘love-child.’

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Heaps of dry rushes and reeds, laid up for the basket-maker and the thatcher, began to appear at the road-side.

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Two of these rose almost perpendicularly, and supported the immense parasol of foliage, the branches of which were so crossed and intertwined and entangled, as if by the hand of a basket-maker, that they formed an impenetrable shade.

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"Why didn't you put them on before it rained?" asked the basket-maker.

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"Are we then so dark?" asked the basket-maker, amused at the mistake.

Pixy's Holiday Journey George Lang

Great was the consternation and alarm of the blind basket-maker and little Charley, as the day passed away and evening came on, without the return of Fanny.

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Farther away is an Italian basket-maker, with olive skin and oily manners; while leaning listlessly against the railing behind him is

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"No wonder they are afraid when you are flourishing that big knife," said the basket-maker.

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