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How's your record since you joined up?" "Clean as anybody's." "And what's your idea about keeping on going straight after the war is over and you get out of service? "Don't answer unless you feel like it; only I've got my own private reasons for wanting to know." "Well, I know a trade learnt it in stir, but I know it. I'm a steamfitter by trade, only I ain't never worked much at it.
At nineteen, as a "checker" at the Upper Kalumet Collieries, Blake had learned to remember faces. Slavic or Magyar, Swedish or Calabrian, from that daily line of over two hundred he could always pick his face and correctly call the name. His post meant a life of indolence and petty authority. His earlier work as a steamfitter had been more profitable.
"You don't happen to know anything about machinery, do you?" he began. "Of course I do," retorted Blake, thinking gratefully of his early days as a steamfitter. "Then why could n't I put you in a cap and jumper and work you in as one of the greasers?" "What do you mean by greasers?" "That's an oiler in the engine-room.
She studied me a moment, as though card-indexing me, then having apparently decided that I was in earnest and not merely trying to flirt, that elusive smile again played about her mouth. "You are the first steamfitter I ever met that found himself badly in need of a stenographer." Caught! I bit my lip at my stupid blunder, but had to laugh in spite of myself. "Your make-up is all wrong, Mr.
Mattie Fordran, wife of a steamfitter; Robert Harris, a rancher; Fred Corbs, bricklayer, once a member of the union, then working for himself; Mrs. Louise Raynor, wife of a master mariner; A. Peplan, farmer; Mrs. Clara Uhlman, wife of a harnessmaker in business for himself; Mrs. Alice Freeborn, widow of a druggist; F. M. Christian, tent and awning maker; Mrs.
"It's so tiresome," goes on Lucy Lee, "wandering out at night to some strange restaurant and eating dinner among total strangers. We go often to one perfectly dreadful little place because there's a funny old waiter that we call by his first name. He tells us about his married daughter, whose husband is a steamfitter and has been out on strike for nearly two months.
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