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He obtained a few necessary tools from an ironmonger, and bought a bench and a bed for ready money. From the master-shoemaker he obtained as a beginning some material for children's shoes, which he made at odd times. His principal living he got from Master Beck in Market Street.
Miss Perrit had been in to see mother, and she'd been tellin' over what luck Nancy'd had down to Hartford: how't she had gone into a shop, and a young man had been struck with her good looks, an' he'd turned out to be a master-shoemaker, and Nancy was a-goin' to be married, and so on, a rigmarole as long as the moral law, windin' up with askin' mother why she didn't send us girls off to try our luck, for Major was as old as Nance Perrit.
He obtained a few necessary tools from an ironmonger, and bought a bench and a bed for ready money. From the master-shoemaker he obtained as a beginning some material for children's shoes, which he made at odd times. His principal living he got from Master Beck in Market Street.
The manufacturer was one of his most bitter opponents among the employers at the time when he was organizing the trade a young master-shoemaker who had had the good sense to follow the development and take the leap over to manufacturer. "Oh, it's you, is it?" he said. "Well, well, old differences shan't stand between us if we can come to an agreement in other ways.
In days when clouds were heavy and low and the gaunt wolf stood at the door she would say: "Do you mind the journey to Antrim, Jamie?" "Aye," he would say with a sigh, "an' we've been in love ever since, haven't we, Anna?" For a year after their arrival in Antrim they lived in the home of the master-shoemaker for whom Jamie worked as journeyman.
Despite the Red Beadle's Rationalism, which, basing itself on the facts of life, was not to be crushed by high-flown German words, the master-shoemaker showed him marked favor and often invited him to stay on to supper.
In some dingy corner, perhaps, in some damp kennel which is supposed to be a room, an artisan has just awakened from sleep. All night he has dreamt IF such an insignificant fellow is capable of dreaming? about the shoes which last night he mechanically cut out. He is a master-shoemaker, you see, and therefore able to think of nothing but his one subject of interest.
The manufacturer was one of his most bitter opponents among the employers at the time when he was organizing the trade a young master-shoemaker who had had the good sense to follow the development and take the leap over to manufacturer. "Oh, it's you, is it?" he said. "Well, well, old differences shan't stand between us if we can come to an agreement in other ways.
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