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The impression was that a good car could not be built at a low price, and that, anyhow, there was no use in building a low-priced car because only wealthy people were in the market for cars. The 1908-1909 sales of more than ten thousand cars had convinced me that we needed a new factory. We already had a big modern factory the Piquette Street plant.
Still less can I foreshadow the fate of his eldest son, who has just been rusticated from Christ Church for riding one of Simmon's hacks through a china-shop window; especially as the youth is reported to be given to piquette and strong liquors, and, like many noblemen's eldest sons, is considered 'not to have the talent of his father. As for the old lord himself, I have no wish to change or develop him in any way except to cut slips off him, as you do off a willow, and plant two or three in every county in England.
'Am I to count the minutes by my watch? 'By the sun. We will supply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly to Caen for Paris at sunset. 'Let the fare be Spartan. I could take my black broth with philosophy every day of the year under your auspices. What I should miss . . . 'You bring no news of the world or the House? 'None. You know as much as I know.
The moral is coming. Our little wooden shop had, with the business we were doing, become totally inadequate, and in 1906 we took out of our working capital sufficient funds to build a three-story plant at the corner of Piquette and Beaubien streets which for the first time gave us real manufacturing facilities.
It took six men to hold the hammers and six men to hold the casings, and the din was terrific. Now an automatic press operated by one man, who does nothing else, gets through five times as much work in a day as those twelve men did. In the Piquette plant the cylinder casting traveled four thousand feet in the course of finishing; now it travels only slightly over three hundred feet.
A piquette is then detached from the troop and follows the priest and escorts him to the church. If the procession in its route meets a carriage, no matter how high a personage may be in it, he cedes his place at once to the priest, who goes in it to the sick person, and returns in it to his parsonage. The monarch himself forms no exception to this rule.
I reached the door, and got hold of the handle, and, watching my opportunity, slipped dexterously in, and making a plunge, came against the surgeon, who, seated on a camp-stool, was playing piquette, and overthrew him into a corner. "Repique, by jingo," shouted Sam Buckley, who was the surgeon's opponent.
'Am I to count the minutes by my watch? 'By the sun. We will supply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly to Caen for Paris at sunset. 'Let the fare be Spartan. I could take my black broth with philosophy every day of the year under your auspices. What I should miss... 'You bring no news of the world or the House? 'None. You know as much as I know.
"Because he plainly perceives that his piquette* stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine." *A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape. The two Musketeers reddened to the whites of their eyes. d'Artagnan did not know where he was, and wished himself a hundred feet underground.
Ten days later, my cicerone said that the first harvest would be in active progress, and he most cordially invited me to revisit him for the purpose of looking on. From the lees of the crushed berries a third and much inferior oil is made and used in the manufacture of soap, just as what is called piquette or sour wine is made in Brittany from the lees of crushed grapes.
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