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His wages as apprentice were 8s. a week; but by working over-hours, making wooden wedges used in pit-work, and blocking out segments of solid oak required for walling the sides of the mine, he considerably increased his earnings, which enabled him to add to the gross income of the family, who were still struggling with the difficulties of small means and increasing expenses.
Nelly shook her head as if in answer to her own thoughts while Harry was speaking, but when he ceased she congratulated him warmly. "You were never fit for pit-work, Harry, and a schoolmaster's life will suit you well. It is curious that Jack's two friends should both have taken to the same life." Jack's surprise was unbounded when, a month after the reopening of the Vaughan, Mr.
'Would you like to leave the pit-work, David, and go into the engineers' department? 'What! and become a great man like Stephenson and Brunel? Oh yes, sir! the boy joyfully exclaimed, for, like all youthful ambitions he vaulted at once to the highest pinnacle of greatness there is no midway for the ardent young. The manager smiled at his enthusiasm, as he replied,
It was one fine afternoon, when Frank was better than usual, that he turned to Jacob in the midst of a walk, and said abruptly, "Jacob, should you like to go to the diggings?" "Why, Mayster Frank," was the reply, "I've often thought I should just like to try my hand at it, for I was trained as a lad to pit-work.
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