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As soon as the dismissal bell rang, and everyone else ran to his or her allotted corner to be "trained," the poor Martins sadly made their way to the pegs where hung coats and dinner-pails, and hurried away home to work. No wonder they did not succeed at school. Mr.
The men who had tea or coffee were glad to hear that, and they went to the little boy's house and took their tea and their coffee. Some had it in bottles and some had it in the covers of their dinner-pails, with the cup to drink out of fitting over the top. The foreman didn't go, and the little boy sat down close to him and began to drink his milk; but his cat bothered him by trying to get it.
I wanted to see Pogue; but, strange to say, he didn't act during the entire evenin. I reckin he has left Niblo's, and gone over to Barnum's. Very industrious pepl are the actors at Barnum's. They play all day, and in the evenin likewise. I meet'm every mornin, at five o'clock, going to their work with their tin dinner-pails. It's a sublime site. Many of them sleep on the premises.
"D'ye think they'll be awful hard to bring up, Harriet?" whispered Mrs. Sawyer tremulously, detaining the doctor's landlady for a moment behind the others. Mrs. Munn looked steadily into Hannah Sawyer's kindly eyes. These two had been stanch friends since the days when they had sat together in school and shared dinner-pails.
When the new baby came, these three little girls did all the work, cooking the food and carrying it four or five steps up from the kitchen to the mother's room to let her see if it were nicely prepared and if the dinner-pails for the men were properly packed. Soon after this, Mr. Anthony remarked that one of the "spoolers" was ill and there was no one to do her work.
"You were very good to the little feller," was all the man said when she ended her somewhat confused tale, in which she had jumbled the old coach and Miss Celia, dinner-pails and nutting, Sancho and circuses. "'Course we were! He's a nice boy and we are fond of him, and he likes us," said Bab, heartily.
The light that struggled through the frozen windows of the delicatessen store, and the saloon on the corner, fell upon men with empty dinner-pails who were hurrying homeward, their coats buttoned tightly, and heads bent against the steady blast from the river, as if they were butting their way down the street.
It consisted of a kerosene stove of two burners, another one near it for emergencies, a wooden cupboard full of heavy white dishes, and a lower part to it where the stores were. "The hardest thing for you will be getting up early," he said sympathetically. "The men have to have breakfast and be out of here by seven o'clock. And they take dinner-pails with them.
There were tears in her eyes now, for his voice unconsciously took on the anguish of that despair. "I sat there looking out toward the mountains and down on the camp. The blasts were booming from all hills the men were going home with their dinner-pails flashing red in the setting sun's light. It was terrible to think of them going home to supper.
Working-men with dinner-pails, and factory girls, were passing close to them, and he lowered his voice to a sharp, incisive half-whisper as he added, "It wouldn't be worth any grown man's while to quarrel with so poor a creature as you are." Theron stood confounded, with an empty stare of bewilderment on his face.
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