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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Now for the 'Village Parson." His memory did not fail or trip, and the widow sat there machining; so we turned to her for more information, and found that she was a Leicester woman, and her parents Scots; she had been a boot machinist from her youth. Her husband was a "clicker" from Stafford; he had been dead eight years. She was left with four children.
Cerizet, compositor, clicker, and foreman, realized in his person the "phenomenal triplicity" of Kant; he set up type, read proof, took orders, and made out invoices; but the most part of the time he had nothing to do, and used to read novels in his den at the back of the workshop while he waited for an order for a bill-head or a trade circular.
"No more trains to-night," responded the man without looking up from the noisy clicker over which he was bending. "No more trains?" "That's what I said. The last one passed here fifteen minutes ago." "Isn't there any way we can get there?" "I s'pose there is." "What is it?" demanded Mott eagerly. "Walk." "How far is it?" "Seven miles." "And there's no other way?"
The shopmen stood about, whispering to one another or changing the position of a pair of boots as they waited for the customers. A crowd had gathered round the window on the left, which was fitted out like a workshop. On one side a clicker was cutting uppers from the skin; beside him a girl sat at a machine stitching the uppers together at racing speed.
Not being able to satisfy him upon this point, he has sought in divers ways to pick a quarrel with me." Just at this moment the door opened, and there entered to the evident annoyance of the little deformed man, one Ephraim Flagg, a clicker of shoes, and an ex-stagedriver.
Moses dropped into Yiddish. "I am looking for work. Peradventure have you something for me?" "What can you do?" "I have been a riveter." "I cannot engage any more riveters." Moses looked disappointed. "I have also been a clicker," he said. "I have all the clickers I can afford," Baruch answered. Moses's gloom deepened. "Two years ago I worked as a finisher." Baruch shook his head silently.
"It's money well spent if it had been a thousand," Brooks answered. "Some day they may learn their strength, and they will not suffer then, like brute animals, in silence. Look here. I'm going to speak to one of them." He touched a tall youth on the shoulder. "Out of work, my lad?" he asked. The youth turned surlily round. "Yes. Looks like it, don't it?" "What are you?" Brooks asked. "Clicker."
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