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Steele puts up a mighty convincin' line of talk, tryin' to show 'em how much better it would be to have a couple of hundred or so comin' in fresh on the first of every month, than to be handed a lump sum and maybe lose some of it, or run shy before next payday.
She knew all the habits of the family: At what hour the bell was rung, when the workmen went away, the Saturday payday which kept the cashier's little lamp lighted late in the evening, and the long Sunday afternoon, the closed workshops, the smokeless chimney, the profound silence which enabled her to hear Mademoiselle Claire at play in the garden, running about with her cousin Georges.
Every evening there was some part of the project to be talked over, and "mother" and I held many whispered conversations. Once Jim, smiling, observed that, if I had any hair on my face, he would be jealous. I remember that it was on the 14th day of December, 1863, that payday came. I banked my money with "mother," and Jim, as usual, counted out his half to that dear old financier.
"Sure," Jake said with a grin, "but there's not much of a favor I can do you any more, boy. Can't even loan you a ten until next payday." "Jake, you can help me," said Mel. "You don't expect to ever take a trip to Mars, do you?" "Mars! Are you crazy, Mel?" "I went once. I've got to go again. It's about Alice. And they won't let me. I didn't know you could go only once in ten years."
"Well said," answered the employer, and the following payday Bok found an increase in his weekly envelope.
Engineers, not under the influence of business, are qualified to open up the creative aspects of production to the workers and to convince them through their own experience that that there are adventurous possibilities in industry outside the meagre offerings of payday. Mr. Robert Wolf is one of the engineers who is ready for the venture.
Sally queried, as Thayer came to a full stop. "Then they took him out to supper," he replied prosaically. "And then?" Sally persisted. Thayer spoke with some reluctance. "Then they found him an engagement that paid a better salary, and they bullied him into accepting a little loan, until the first week's payday came around." "That was so good of you!" Beatrix said impulsively.
Formerly, the morning list of "drunks" merely reflected the nearness or remoteness of payday. Now, it is a most reliable and invaluable barometer of the regimental atmosphere. He has developed quite spontaneously, for he has had few opportunities for imitation many of the characteristics of the regular soldier.
This man was thinking of home, of wife and little girl, of what pay-day meant for them. Bandy gave him a friendly slap on the shoulder. "Frank, you got drunk an' laid out all night, last payday." Frank remembered, but he did not say what he had forgotten that last pay-day. A long and gradual slope led from Benton down across the barren desert toward Medicine Bow.
Well, I'd been there over one payday and halfway to the next, when one mornin' about ten-thirty the door comes open with a bang, and in steps a husky young gent, swingin' one of these dinky, leather-covered canes, and lookin' like money from the mint. He didn't make any play to draw a card, same's they generally does; but steers straight for the brass gate, full tilt.
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