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The idea of Civil Service Reform promotion for the good men in your employ rather than hiring new ones for the big places is a rule which looks well on paper but is a fatal policy if carried out to the letter. The business that is not progressive is sowing the seeds of its own dissolution.
Strawberries were scattered along the brookside. Dined at the hotel or Mansion-House to-day. Men were playing checkers in the parlor. The Marshal of Maine, a corpulent, jolly fellow, famed for humor. A passenger left by the stage hiring an express onward. A bottle of champagne was quaffed at the bar. July 9th. Went with B to pay a visit to the shanties of the Irish and Canadians.
Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen and I sat all the morning hiring of ships to go to Guinny, where we believe the warr with Holland will first break out.
Sir. 'Pint of the best ale! 'Yes, Sir. Away runs the waiter to the bar, and gets the ale from the landlord. Out comes the informer's note-book penalty on the father for hiring, on the waiter for delivering, and on the landlord for selling, on the Lord's day. But it does not stop here. The waiter delivers the ale, and darts off, little suspecting the penalties in store for him.
His professed inability to devise any way for getting south of the Cape is strong proof of guilt." The sequential acts of the Gorges conspiracy were doubtless practically as follows: He and Cushman, who was clearly entirely innocent of the conspiracy, had the hiring of the ship and of her officers, and at this point he and his acts were of vital importance to Gorges's plans.
I would soon find myself after the first few séances with the man I was hiring to sit down with me and be a lawyer backwards to me I would soon find myself having things done to me that would be so plain, so pointed, so sensible, so scientific and matter of fact and thorough that I would be able in a minute to cut down to the quick with any man I met, cut down to the quick and get what I wanted on any subject I took up, because nobody could fool me, because I couldn't even be fooled by myself.
I believe Thomas is right in thinking that a smaller farm, which you could manage easily and well without hiring help, would be more profitable; and now it will seem the most natural thing in the world to sell that great southern meadow to Mr. Weston."
Skinner!" Mr. Skinner looked up from his desk by the window. "Well, sir!" he demanded haughtily. "Murphy is not to be fired," Matt answered. "Indeed! And by whose orders?" "Mine! I'm the port captain of the Blue Star Navigation Company, and, beginning now, I'm going to do all the hiring and firing of captains." Mr. Skinner turned pale.
And there were rough peasants and peasant-women who had come with their selfish requirements, seeking cures or to have doubts about quite practical affairs solved for them: about marrying off a daughter, or hiring a shop, or buying a bit of land, or how to atone for having overlaid a child or having an illegitimate one. All this was an old story and not in the least interesting to him.
The principal effect of introducing settlement by service, has been to put out in a great measure the old fashion of hiring for a year; which before had been so customary in England, that even at this day, if no particular term is agreed upon, the law intends that every servant is hired for a year.
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