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Updated: May 3, 2025
'I am a boilermaker; looking about him with an exceedingly perplexed air, as if for a boiler that had unaccountably vanished. 'He ain't a mechanic, you understand, sir, the wife put in: 'he's only a labourer. 'Are you in work? He looked up at his wife again. 'Gentleman says are you in work, John?
'Work! said the boilermaker, still seeking that evaporated boiler, first in my countenance, then in the air, and then in the features of his second son at his knee: 'I wish I WAS in work! I haven't had more than a day's work to do this three weeks. 'How have you lived?
A faint gleam of admiration lighted up the face of the would-be boilermaker, as he stretched out the short sleeve of his thread- bare canvas jacket, and replied, pointing her out, 'On the work of the wife.
"'I'd Rather Be Up in the Air Than Up in the Bronx. He has learned twenty-two extra verses and says that he will give them all if the ushers' hands hold out. "When he is through in comes the soubrette, formerly a lady boilermaker in Canarsie, but now disguised as an adventuress, in search of the missing papers.
'I 'adn't been talkin' to 'im ten minutes afore 'e arsked me wot was my night out. 'E isn't arf a one. 'It seems he isn't, I agreed. And I sent up a silent prayer of thankfulness to Heaven and the Domestic Bureau. 'But what about the Amalgamated boilermaker? 'Oh, 'im! She tossed her head. ''E can go to Manchester. 'Have you observed William closely, recently, Netta? Henry asked me.
'In work! cried this forlorn boilermaker, staring aghast at his wife, and then working his vision's way very slowly round to me: 'Lord, no! 'Ah, he ain't indeed! said the poor woman, shaking her head, as she looked at the four children in succession, and then at him.
In one house, where the furniture had been sold, the poor souls had brought a great stone into the place, and this was their only seat. In Cunliffe Street, we passed the cottage of a boilermaker, whom I had heard of before. His family was four in number.
He lost steadily on small bets for half an hour, admiring the skilled palming of the "odds" cubes. The loss was only a tiny dent in his new pile, but Gordon bemoaned it properly as if he were broke and moved over to the bar. This one had seats. The bartender had a consolation boilermaker waiting; he gulped half of it before he realized it had been needled with ether.
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