"Reuben, my boy," said he, "this rock beneath which we sit will serve for an old hunter's gravestone.
"There is not two days' life in me, Reuben," said the other, calmly, "and I will no longer burden you with my useless body, when you can scarcely support your own.
Now I must say a little about
Reuben Smith, who was left in charge of the stables when York went to London.
EARLY in the present century it was generally reported among the neighbors of one
Reuben Limbrick that he was in a fair way to make a comfortable little fortune by dealing in Salt.
Reuben Rosenthall had made his millions on the diamond fields of South Africa, and had come home to enjoy them according to his lights; how he went to work will scarcely be forgotten by any reader of the halfpenny evening papers, which revelled in endless anecdotes of his original indigence and present prodigality, varied with interesting particulars of the extraordinary establishment which the millionaire set up in St.
They said, "Lo, here is this dreamer--let us kill him." But
Reuben pleaded for his life, and they spared it.
'It was Mr
Reuben Haredale, Mr Geoffrey's elder brother--'
Reuben Hayes's manner was far from gracious, but Holmes took it with admirable good-humour.
High Pardons Wood, Lower Pardons, Suttons, Dutton's Shaw,
Reuben's Ghyll, Maxey's Ghyll, and both the Oak Hangers?
I am an impoverished wretch the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from
Reuben of Tadcaster.''
As one old
Reuben told a professor of an agricultural experiment station: 'They ain't no sense in tryin' to teach me farmin'.
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Reuben Pitman, master, 50, single, Main Street, City.