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Updated: May 10, 2025
In presence of this goodly company, a man of a depressed, neglected air, a soft, simple-looking fellow, with an anxious expression, in a laborer's dress, approached and inquired for Mr. Barker. Mine host being gone to Portland, the stranger was directed to the bar-keeper, who stood at the door.
The stream is rich in fish of excellent quality and flavor, such as is found in most of the great rivers of Asia; and is especially noted for its platoo, a kind of sardine, so abundant and cheap that it forms a common seasoning to the laborer's bowl of rice.
With this in mind, we must accept the fact that the value of the laborer's services to the employer is the net result of two elements, one positive, one negative; namely, work and waste.
"We 'll start single-jacking to-morrow," he announced with a little sigh. "In the 'anging wall." "You mean ?" "We can't do much more up 'ere. It ain't worth it. The vein 's pinched down until we ain't even getting day laborer's wages out of it and it's October now." October! October and winter on the way.
He did not believe, he said with a laugh, that his cousin, when found, would be doing anything half so energetic or useful as carrying bricks he would have more hope of him if he could believe it. The laborer's real, or fancied, likeness to Edgar was but a case of chance resemblance, that was all. But that was not enough for Maria Clemm.
I've often wondered to myself why you had been given such unprofitable talents such as lying about and painting on the walls or on paper you, a poor laborer's son. Something must be intended by that, I used to tell myself, in my own mind; perhaps it's the gift of God and he'll get on by reason of it! And now it really seems as if it's to find its use."
Even to the poorest laborer's family comes now something like peace and rest forerunning the intermission of the night. Everybody who has any artistic sense recognizes this instinctively when they see through the open doors of humble houses the father and mother and children gathered around their simple supper.
The burden was sometimes so heavy that rapid fatigue developed and the movements became too slow, or the lifted mass was so light that the larger part of the laborer's energies remained unused. In either case the final result of the day's work must be anti-economic.
The equilibrium of the forces of production had been definitely upset and could no longer be righted. One of the basic postulates of profitable production is the equilibrium of all its essential factors such as the laborer's wages, the cost of the machinery and the material, the administration. Bring discord into the harmony and the entire mechanism is out of gear.
A great black raven darted down in front of her on the high road, and croaked dismally. "Ah," said she, "what bird of ill omen art thou?" Presently she passed the laborer's hut; his wife stood at the door, and the two women spoke to each other. "You look well," said the woman; "you're fat and plump; you are well off." "Oh yes," answered Anne Lisbeth.
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