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By way of making my first evening at the farm all the more embarrassing to me as a stranger, I discovered before long that the father and sons were talking indirectly at each other, through Mr. Jago and through me. When old Mr. Meadowcroft spoke disparagingly to his overlooker of some past mistake made in the cultivation of the arable land of the farm, old Mr.
"Please, sir, Davenport's ill of the fever, and I'm come to know if you've got an Infirmary order for him?" "Davenport Davenport; who is the fellow? I don't know the name." "He's worked in your factory better nor three years, sir." "Very likely; I don't pretend to know the names of the men I employ; that I leave to the overlooker. So he's ill, eh?"
Want o' cotton, happen, same as everything else is stopt for." Leaving this house we met with another member of the Relief Committee, who was overlooker of a mill a little way off. I parted here with the gentleman who had accompanied me hitherto, and the overlooker went on with me. In Newton Street he stopped, and said, "Let's look in here."
Being both bad sailors, we should want a Steward if we did; but there's generally one provided. Mr Rokesmith again explained; defining the duties he sought to undertake, as those of general superintendent, or manager, or overlooker, or man of business. 'Now, for instance come! said Mr Boffin, in his pouncing way. 'If you entered my employment, what would you do?
Little by little Patsy had slid from being stud-groom into being general overlooker of the business of the place. Having found him she went with him into the stables where the light was just failing, going from one to the other of the horses, talking to them, fondling them, discussing them with Patsy in the knowledgable way of a person accustomed to horses and loving them all her days.
After a minute or two, he asked "Mary, art thou much bound to Manchester? Would it grieve thee sore to quit the old smoke-jack?" "With thee?" she asked, in a quiet, glancing way. "Ay, lass! Trust me, I'll never ask thee to leave Manchester while I'm in it. Because I have heard fine things of Canada; and our overlooker has a cousin in the foundry line there. Thou knowest where Canada is, Mary?"
It was not long before he had chopped up everything in the place, both firewood and timber, both rafters and beams, and when he was ready with it, he came in and asked what he was to do now. "You can finish chopping the wood," they said. "There is no more to chop," he answered. That could not be possible, thought the overlooker, and had a look into the wood-shed.
In the third year Hamilton gave up his sail-boat, and had himself rowed across the Narrows, where the overlooker of a salt estate he had bought awaited him with a horse. Once he would have thought nothing of walking the eight miles to Basseterre, but the Tropics, while they sharpen the nerves, caress unceasingly the indolence of man.
He did his best, and, as he and his companion always performed a far larger share of work than that done by any two of the Spaniards, they gained the goodwill of their overlooker, who, when a fortnight later the principal bey of the place sent down a request for two slaves to do some rough work in his garden, selected them for the work. "Now we will just buckle to, lad," Stephen Boldero said.
And the man who was standing by made answer: 'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig, who are to be wedded to-morrow to three giants. 'How can we find them? asked the young man again. And the overlooker answered: 'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.
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