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The office work was much the same as before, nothing very exciting; one of the lads, Craftsman Edlin wishing to upgrade his draughtsman's rating applied to be trade tested and was told to design a lawn mower for the officers' quarters. Since the lawn at the officers' quarters boasted about 50 blades of grass per square foot this was a little silly. Sgt Madders. Cfn Grey. Cfn Pulgram . Sgt Wassel.
One was to put a huge import duty on aniline dyes and so bring back the lovely vegetable dyes of old India, the saffrons, indigoes, madders, etc.; the other was to build a black marble Taj at Agra opposite the white and join the two by a silver bridge. I expected to get a rise, but actually he took the ideas quite seriously and I am sure made a mental note of them.
He knew that Jacovik envied him the job; he knew that Jacovik had only missed the appointment by a narrow margin. "Jac," he said, "have you got a man on your crew that you can trust to take over your job?" "Madders could do it, I think," Jacovik said cautiously. "Why?" "This is too big a job for one man," said Anketam quietly. "I'll need help. I want you to help me, Jac."
When Time puts in his burnt umbers and brown madders with a lavish hand, and introduces his beautiful irregularities of outline, and his artistic disrepair, he does not look to the drainage, and takes no thought for holes in the roof. Dare could not go out without eager women sallying out of cottages as he passed, begging him just to come in and walk up-stairs.
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