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They were immediately taken into the different crews and night-shifts of paddlers put to work. It was quite dark, when the new hands joined us; but in the moonlight, as the chief steersman told off the men by name, I watched each tawny figure step quickly to his place in the canoes, with that gliding Indian motion, which scarcely rocked the light craft.
Some of Nyleptha's brave ladies, who in their night-shifts and with their long hair streaming down their backs, just as they had been aroused from rest, went off to admit them at the side entrance, whilst others, assisted by the rescuing party outside, pushed and pulled down the marble blocks they had placed there with so much labour.
Will it not be easy to be diligent when we feel that we are 'ever in the great Taskmaster's eye'? There are many reasons for diligence the greatness of the work, for it is no small matter for us to get the whole lump of our nature leavened with the good leaven; the continual operation of antagonistic forces which are all round us, and are working night-shifts as well as day ones, whether we as Christians are on short time or not, the brevity of the period during which we have to work, and the tremendous issues which depend upon the completeness of our service here all these things are reasons for our diligence.
"It is a face!" she murmured reflectively. "But I should hate to have to go around with it long!" A sallow young man, with the alertness peculiar to those who work on the night-shifts of restaurants, dumped a tray down on the table with a clatter. The Duchess woke up. Babe took her eyes off the ceiling. The Southern girl ceased to look at the sunshine.
I do not speak it with regard to the coarseness or cleanness of them or the strength of their gussets but pray do not night-shifts differ from day-shifts as much in this particular, as in any thing else in the world; that they so far exceed the others in length, that when you are laid down in them, they fall almost as much below the feet, as the day-shifts fall short of them?
N. thought she would go up to the cemetery: `I got some children up there, she explained, `and same time I get some air. No, I don't go nowheres, just to the mill and then home." Here again, as in all reports on women in industry, we find the prevalence of pregnant women working on night-shifts, often to the very day of their delivery.
You just try it." There was no reply. "D'you hear, Master Mark? You try it." Still no response, and he turned his head, to see that his companion's chin was resting upon his chest. "Sleep!" said Dummy, with a little laugh. "Can't stand being up all night like I can. Being on night-shifts, sometimes, I s'pose. Well, let him sleep for a few minutes, and then I'll wake him." Then all was blank.
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