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Hammond's a real, nice, respectable man. As to his money well, that's his business anyhow, and, besides, he ain't hirin' the horse and buggy; he's goin' to borrow it off his nephew over to the Centre. His askin' me to go is a real neighborly act." "Huh! If he's so plaguy neighborly why don't he ask me to go, too? I'm as nigh a neighbor as you be, ain't I?"
"Why, I seen him to-day myself in Castalia!" cried Thomas. "He's up there hirin' men to ship with him. Said he was goin' to stay all night. I know the very house he's in." "You do?" "Yes." "Do you think I could get there to-night?" "You might." Jimmie looked at his watch. "The Seal Cove mail-wagon's gone long ago, but I'll take you down in my motor-dory if you'll come right now."
If you say, "Ah, yes, but also your hours of grief and misfortin;" I answer, it is troo, and you prob'ly refer to the circumstans of my hirin' a young man of dissypated habits to fix hisself up as A real Cannibal from New Zeelan, and when I was simply tellin the audience that he was the most feroshos Cannibal of his tribe, and that, alone and unassisted, he had et sev'ril of our fellow countrymen, and that he had at one time even contemplated eatin his Uncle Thomas on his mother's side, as well as other near and dear relatives, when I was makin' these simple statements the mis'ble young man said I was a lyer, and knockt me off the platform.
But the man hirin' cheap labor wouldn't. He'll take anything that will work cheap, and the country pays the difference, like we done down to Sterling." "You mean there can't be cheap labor?" "The same. Somebody's got to pay." "Well, Sterling paid," said Lorry, "if a man's life is worth anything." "Yes, she paid.
I've had to hire, and hirin' comes high. I've had considerable to do for a widder with four children, too she's my brother's widder an', take it all together, I 'ain't been able to save another dollar. But that don't make no odds, as long as I'm going to double it in that stock of yourn. Take it." Carroll backed away almost sternly. "I don't want your money," he said. The barber stood aghast.
"What's the use of hirin' somebody from right next door to us, as you might say?" demanded Alpheus Smalley, clerk at the store. "Don't we want our teachin' to be abreast of the times, and is Wellmouth abreast of ANYthing?" "It's abreast of the bay, that's about all, I will give in," replied Mr. Tidditt.
What does a body go to the bother of raisin' childern FUR? Just to lose 'em as soon as they are growed enough to help earn a little? I ain't LEAVIN' Tillie get married! She's stayin' at home to help her pop and mom except in winter when they ain't so much work, and mebbe then I'm hirin' her out to Aunty Em at the hotel where she can earn a little, too, to help along.
"I'd rather take a band on shares. If I put what little money I've got into it I'll go it alone." "That's right; it's safer to let the other man take the risk. It ain't fair to us sheepmen, but we have to do it to get men. Well, when we hit on a good man, it pays better than hirin' poor ones at fifty dollars a month and found.
"There's two or three I could think of right off now who would probably take the job, but two out of the three wouldn't be much account anyhow, and the only one that would is Sarah Mullet and she's engaged to a Trumet feller. Now let alone the prospect of Sarah's gettin' married and leavin' you 'most any time, there's another reason for not hirin' her.
"Well, you ain't goin' to let one of your cerridges go, let alone hirin', unless he pays ahead." "Lord! Dilly, how'm I goin' to ask him?" protested Rawdy. "How? Why, the way anybody would ask him. 'Ain't you got a tongue in your head?" demanded she. "You dunno what a man he is. I asked him the other night when I drove him up, and it wa'n't a job I liked, I can tell you." "Did he pay you?"
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