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The Diary of a Nobody
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George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith
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APRIL
10.—
Farmerson
came
round
to
attend
to
the
scraper
himself.
He
seems
a
very
civil
fellow.
He
says
he
does
not
usually
conduct
such
small
jobs
personally,
but
for
me
he
would
do
so.
I
thanked
him,
and
went
to
town.
It
is
disgraceful
how
late
some
of
the
young
clerks
are
at
arriving.
I
told
three
of
them
that
if
Mr.
Perkupp,
the
principal,
heard
of
it,
they
might
be
discharged.
Pitt,
a
monkey
of
seventeen,
who
has
only
been
with
us
six
weeks,
told
me
“to
keep
my
hair
on!”
I
informed
him
I
had
had
the
honour
of
being
in
the
firm
twenty
years,
to
which
he
insolently
replied
that
I
“looked
it.”
I
gave
him
an
indignant
look,
and
said:
“I
demand
from
you
some
respect,
sir.”
He
replied:
“All
right,
go
on
demanding.”
I
would
not
argue
with
him
any
further.
You
cannot
argue
with
people
like
that.
In
the
evening
Gowing
called,
and
repeated
his
complaint
about
the
smell
of
paint.
Gowing
is
sometimes
very
tedious
with
his
remarks,
and
not
always
cautious;
and
Carrie
once
very
properly
reminded
him
that
she
was
present.
APRIL
11.—
Mustard-and-cress
and
radishes
not
come
up
yet.
To-day
was
a
day
of
annoyances.
I
missed
the
quarter-to-nine
’bus
to
the
City,
through
having
words
with
the
grocer’s
boy,
who
for
the
second
time
had
the
impertinence
to
bring
his
basket
to
the
hall-door,
and
had
left
the
marks
of
his
dirty
boots
on
the
fresh-cleaned
door-steps.
He
said
he
had
knocked
at
the
side
door
with
his
knuckles
for
a
quarter
of
an
hour.
I
knew
Sarah,
our
servant,
could
not
hear
this,
as
she
was
upstairs
doing
the
bedrooms,
so
asked
the
boy
why
he
did
not
ring
the
bell?
He
replied
that
he
did
pull
the
bell,
but
the
handle
came
off
in
his
hand.
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