umbrellar

I was overtook some'ow -- I seed the umbrellar standin 'handy, you know, and -- etceterer.

Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859

Now, how did the young policeman that spoke to me the day before know that my umbrellar would go there, and how did it get there?

Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859

Would you believe it, I left my umbrellar the other day in a cab, and I didn't know the number of the cab, for numbers won't remain in my head, nor the look of the cabman, for I never look at cabmen, they are so rude sometimes.

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I didn't even remember the place where I got into the cab, for I can't remember places when I've to go to so many, so I gave up my umbrellar for lost and was going away, when a policeman stepped up to me and asked in a very civil tone if I had lost anything.

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"` Or do you take my umbrellar for a fool, 'said I, ` that it should walk down to Scotland Yard of its own accord and wait there till I called for it?'

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"` You'd know the umbrellar if you saw it, madam, 'said the polite constable who escorted me.

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That's a pictur of him in his hairy dress, wi 'his goat, an' parrot, an 'the umbrellar as he made hisself, a-lookin' at the footprint on the sand. "

The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea 1859