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"All his misfortune," says Roger North, "lay at home, in perverse consort, who always, after his day-labor done, entertained him with all the chagrin and peevishness imaginable; so that he went home as to his prison, or worse; and when the time came, rather than go home, he chose commonly to get a friend to go and sit in a free chat at the tavern, over a single bottle, till twelve or one at night, and then to work again at five in the morning.
And to meet this I have for farm produce sold $ 23.44 Earned by day-labor.................... 13.34 In all............................ $ 36.78,
Besides being better off than they already, if my house had been burned or my crops had failed, I should have been nearly as well off as before.... By surveying, carpentry, and day-labor of various other kinds in the village in the meanwhile, for I have as many trades as fingers, I had earned $13.34.
Thus Thoreau, when he, "by surveying, carpentry and day-labor of various other kinds," had earned $13.34, was doing income-work, the work by which he had to live. For the same purpose, he worked at raising potatoes, green corn, and peas. When he wrote Walden, he did a kind of work which also in time brought him an income.
The plan upon which the work is proceeding will require a further expenditure of $1,600,000. The expenditure is not squandered. Much the larger part of it is paid for day-labor.
And when we use the term coercion, nothing is farther from our thoughts than the carrying of blood and fire among those whom we still consider our brethren of South Carolina. These civilized communities of ours have interests too serious to be risked on a childish wager of courage, a quality that can always be bought cheaper than day-labor on a railway-embankment.
And when we use the term Coercion, nothing is farther from our thoughts than the carrying of blood and fire among those whom we still consider our brethren of South Carolina. These civilized communities of ours have interests too serious to be risked on a childish wager of courage, a quality that can always be bought cheaper than day-labor on a railway-embankment.
For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them who were above such trifling. But to proceed with my statistics. By surveying, carpentry, and day-labor of various other kinds in the village in the meanwhile, for I have as many trades as fingers, I had earned $13.34.
House $28.12-1/2 Farm, one year 14.72-1/2 Food, eight months 8.74 Clothing, etc., eight months 8.40-3/4 Oil, etc., eight months 2.00 In all $61.99-3/4 I address myself now to those of my readers who have a living to get. And to meet this I have for farm produce sold $23.44 Earned by day-labor 13.34 In all $36.78
I answered him frankly because it was his due. "It has come down to one of two things: day-labor, in a field where a man is merely a number on the pay-roll or that other road which is always open to the prison-bird." He put his hand on my shoulder. "You are not going to take the other road, Weyburn," he said gravely. "I hope not I hope I shan't be driven to." "You mustn't make it conditional.
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