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It's a Gif'. Quartermaster tole me so. 'We know that, said the Gunner; 'but if you wanted to you could send sixpence. . . . 'I could not, said the Wheel Driver emphatically. 'I 'aven't seed a sixpence since we lef 'ome. They even pays us in bloomin' French bank notes. An' how I'm goin' to tell, after this war's over, whether my pay's in credit 'Oh, shut it! interrupted the Lead Driver.
And yet it is not altogether for the pay's sake I do it," he added, haltingly. "There really is a fascination about the work. You are really working out a puzzle, like a fellow solving a chess-problem. It isn't really work, it is amusement.
I wouldn't give you five cents to help you find the lode, but you'll go broke on ten dollars long before your next pay's due. Better take this; it may help you out." Agatha took the envelope, but as she began to open it the rig stopped at the gate, and George put his hand on her shoulder. "We mustn't keep Farnam; wait until I've gone," he said and kissed her.
'That's what I say, remarked Easton. 'As for all this religious business, it's just a money-making dodge. It's the parson's trade, just the same as painting is ours, only there's no work attached to it and the pay's a bloody sight better than ours is. 'It's their livin', and a bloody good livin' too, if you ask me, said Bundy.
But, now, Aunt Sarah's went an' fell down cellar." "Whitewash whitewash?" queried Miss Theodosia. "Yes'm, you didn't think Mother was a washwoman, did you? Of course she could, but it doesn't pay's well. She only whitewashes white clo'es, you know, dresses an' shirtwaists. She says it's her talent that the Lord's gave her, an' she's goin' to make it gain ten talents for Carruthers.
He knew better, she told herself, with some bitterness. "Oh, all sorts of stunts boys' club and Sunday school; everything from nursing babies to hammering drunks that abuse their wives. He keeps me and old Bagsley humping, too. It's good practice, but the pay's all glory. Bags has about a dozen patients down there now."
"Hey, Tom!" he shouted. The lantern above was waved out over the edge of the timbered platform and a deep voice responded. "Well, what'che want?" "Send word down to the boys to come up. They're laid off fer a while, an' their pay's ready for 'em." "Lay 'em off! Who says so?" "Lacy, of course; hustle them out now them's the orders." "Well, that beats hell!"
Janet accosted her. "It's the strike," she explained excitedly, evidently surprised at the question. "The Polaks and the Dagoes and a lot of other foreigners quit when they got their envelopes stopped their looms and started through the mill, and when they came into our room I left. I didn't want no trouble with 'em. It's the fifty-four hour law their pay's cut two hours.
Without more words, Colonel Howell shot out his right arm and caught the man by his shoulder. He whirled Chandler and sent him sprawling on the trail. The man's defiance was gone. "My pay's comin' to me," he whimpered, "and I've worked hard for it." "We'll see about that," snapped the oil man, "when the time comes." As if dismissing the incident from his mind, he turned toward the scows.
H. W. Bailie, chief medical officer of Belfast, commented on the low wage of the sweated home worker the report has since been suppressed. I remember one woman he told about. She embroidered 300 dots for a penny. By working continuously all week she could just make $1.50. "Pay's not the only thing," continued Mr. Gordon. "Working condition's another. Go to the mills and see the wet spinners.
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