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Society, of course, was interested in the marriage of Gertrude, business men in the return of so skilled a manufacturer as George Ingram, and many workmen, still unemployed, hoped that their old superintendent whom they loved would find or make positions for them.

But Millet knew his own way best; and how wonderfully minute and painstaking must his survey have been when it enabled him to reproduce the picture of a person afterwards in every detail of dress or movement. He did not paint very fast. He preferred doing good work to much work an almost invariable trait of all the best workmen.

"He is dead!" cried the lookers on. "No one could survive such a fall." "Let us take him to the Hospital Beaujon!" exclaimed Vignol. "We are close by there." An ambulance was speedily procured, and the workmen, placing their insensible friend carefully in it, asked permission to carry him to the hospital. One curious event had excited the attention of some of the lookers on.

One of the workmen told me that the things had been stolen." Mr. Waddington showed some signs of embarrassment. He waited for his companion to proceed. "I wanted the rest of those beans," Burton confessed. Mr. Waddington shook his head slowly. "I haven't made up my mind about them yet," he said. "Better leave them alone." "You do know where they are, then?" Burton demanded breathlessly.

The writer has over and over again warned those who contemplated making this change that it was a matter, even in a simple establishment, of from two to three years, and that in some cases it requires from four to five years. The first few changes which affect the workmen should be made exceedingly slowly, and only one workman at a time should be dealt with at the start.

Hater what to do in order to our going to-morrow, and so back again by coach to Whitehall and there eat something in the buttery at my Lord's with John Goods and Ned Osgood. And so home again, and gave order to my workmen what to do in my absence. At night to Sir W. Batten's, and by his and Sir W. Pen's persuasion I sent for my wife from my father's, who came to us to Mrs.

There was, indeed, a penny magazine published in Leipsic, after the type of the original periodical of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; but it found no purchasers among any of my acquaintances, and was only to be seen, with a few other literary magazines, at the better sort of eating and coffee-houses. The workmen were gay, and fond of amusement, but not recklessly so.

They nearly all were dressed in some sort of fur coat, and all had the look of men accustomed to outdoor life powerful, loud-voiced, unrefined. They were, in fact, traveling men, business men, the owners of mills or timber. The stolid or patient oxlike faces of some Norwegian workmen, dressed in gay Mackinac jackets, were sprinkled about.

"The people were warned to keep away from the place, for the workmen had left behind them a large, ferocious dog who menaced the life of any one who attempted to land on Wau-Winet Island. "Only last night an event happened which I shall never forget if I live to be the age of Methuselah. I was standing near the dock, when suddenly some one laid a heavy hand on my shoulder.

This town of Paloma is going to be wide open to-night in the effort to get the money away from our five hundred men." "We can't stop that," sighed Harry. "We have no control over the way in which the workmen choose to spend their money." "Want me to tell you a secret?" whispered Tom mysteriously. "Yes, if it's an interesting one," smiled Harry. "Very good, then.