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Not you, for you owe more to the tallyman.
My father's a tallyman of the coffee dome.
Glennys made sure she was the first one in line to collect from the tallyman who sat behind his barricade.
"No, sir: the tallyman is waiting for us to agree on his figures - perhaps ma'am could tell him in Spanish.
"Shall I see the tallyman and the guards?"
The ordinary tallyman was there, and Broughton knew him to be careful and accurate.
In addition to the tallyman's work sheets, an informal second count was-provided by the contents of the bucket.
A tallyman or woman visited their dressing-rooms with exquisitely embroidered lingerie which they found impossible to resist.
A tallyman is an individual who keeps a numerical record with tally marks, historically often on tally sticks.
The doctor notifies the Board of Health and the epidemics gentleman calls the tallyman, worried about overcrowding.
Not the time for the hymn and its music, Ramage noted; rather as though he was a tallyman counting as sheep ran through a gate.
Harry Belafonte addresses the tallyman in his Banana Boat Song.
As usual, Boetie Van der Merwe was the tallyman.
Freight agent was P. Bassett and tallyman was James Murray.
From where I was sitting I could see the master of my ship, and at his elbow some sort of tallyman with stilus and wax.
Some 95 per cent of mail order transactions involve credit, and buying from a tallyman or doorstep credit trader virtually by definition means buying on weekly instalments.
The title tallyman extended to the keeper of a village pound as animals were often held against debts, and tally sticks were used to prove they could be released.
After a short time, he entered the sawmill of Mead, Smith and Marsh as a night fireman, quickly moving up to tallyman and then yard manager and salesman.
"In our collective, first they took into account who has enough money, who is better off," recalled Fyodor Lobadrov, 63, who worked as a tallyman keeping track of cargo on the docks.
Credit was given for goods sold in the ordinary way, he said, only because the vendor believed the purchaser would pay, and fear of imprisonment benefited no one but the tallyman who forced his credit on the unwary poor.
In poorer parts of England (including the north and London's East End), the tallyman was the hire purchase collector, who visited each week to collect the payments for goods purchased on the 'never never', or hire purchase.
Apart from his other merits, Saxby could read, the only employee on the estate with that ability, and he could cast up accounts, and woebetide any tallyman who accidentally cut too many or too few notches on his tally stick.
But I am due for a promotion to tallyman for my quadrant, and that will enable me to recover a month this year, perhaps two months if there is no sickness in the family-" He paused, disliking the sound of his own voice pleading.
Ticket clubs were often used to purchase boots: in Middlesbrough a shilling a week was paid to a store on an 18/ ticket until the sum of 21/ had been paid back, the advantage being that the store offered more choice of goods than the tallyman.