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"No; he's all right, and is around here looking for you folks so he told me. He here he comes now." The longshoreman pointed to Luke Peterson, who had just appeared at the upper end of the dock. Both Sam and Tom ran to meet him. "So you are Dick Rover's brothers," said Peterson, as he shook hands. "Glad to know you. Yes, your brother is all right, although mighty tucked out by the exposure.
"He has when he has it but it's bum work. Slave like a nigger and then laid off for six months, maybe." "What kind of work is that?" "'Longshore he's a 'longshoreman." "And when he's unemployed you have a hard time, don't you?" "Hard?" Mrs. Cassidy's voice broke. "What can we do? There's the insurance every week fifteen cents for my man, ten cents for me, and five cents for Annie.
He had no pity nor favour for a mere ambassador, whether he hailed from England or Germany, nor for members of the Institute, Senators nor Deputies. With Prince Albert of Monaco he held himself equal, and for every bird shot on the wing by the head of the house of Grimaldi the "longshoreman" of Havre brought down another.
Final orders of a morning were the usual thing. If he was careful not to reply, if he waited, taking care where he looked, the longshoreman would have his say out and go pressed by time. So the boy, almost holding his breath, fastened his eyes upon a patch of wall where the smudged plaster was broken and some laths showed.
James and Jamie that there was a combination among these gentry not to give away the source whence they derived this modest but assured income. Once there had been Homeric strife and outcry on the dusty wooden stairs; and Mr. James had rushed out only in time to see the longshoreman, in a moment of sober strength, ejecting with some violence a newcomer of appearance more needy than himself.
All things considered, it is probable that a Lowestoft longshoreman, in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century, could make a very good living of it, and even now, now when poverty has fallen on the beach, no beach man, unspoilt by the curse of visitors' tips, would bow his head to any man as his superior. Salvaging, of course."
J. J. Black, age 27, longshoreman, born in Massachusetts. John W. Bowdoin, age 35, laborer, born in Sweden. Frank Boyd, age 43, laborer, born in Illinois. Pete Breed, age 26, laborer, born in Holland. W. H. Brown, age 40, laborer, born in Maryland. H. T. Cheetman, age 25, carpenter, born in Florida. Fred Crysler, age 26, laborer, born in Canada. Charles H. Cody, age 46, painter, born in Montana.
187. =The Manufacturing Industry.= It is the function of the agriculturist and the herdsman, the miner and the lumberman, to produce the raw material. The sailor and the train-hand, the longshoreman and the teamster, transport them to the industrial centres. It is the business of the manufacturer and his employees to turn them into the finished product for the use of society.
"Guess you're not a longshoreman," he said, to begin the conversation. "Me?" drawled the other; then, mysteriously, "Wal, sonny, I'll tell y': if I am, I ain't never yet found it out!" Then silence for half a block. Johnnie studied his next remark. The direct way was the most natural to him. He tried another query. "And and what do y' do?" he asked.
Johnnie got to his feet then, watching Barber, who was leaning over the sink, cleaning out the bowl of the pipe with the half of a match. Oh, if only the longshoreman would leave the window now, before before Almost gayly, and as jerkily as always, the basket with its precious load came dropping by quick inches into full view, where it swung from side to side, waiting to be drawn in.
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