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Updated: June 3, 2025
During the last seven years he had worked only eighteen months all together. The rest of the time he had been on the Saw-Grinders' box, receiving relief, viz.: seven shillings and sixpence for his wife, and two shillings for each child; and every now and then he would be seen with three or four sovereigns in his possession.
He had stuck to Henry's side like a dog, but with no more interest in the inquiry than a calf, indeed, his wandering eye and vacant face had indicated that his scanty wits were wool-gathering miles from the place that contained his body. But, as soon as he entered the saw-grinders' room, his features lighted up, and his eye kindled.
Confound their dishonesty: they take the immense advantages the Saw-grinders' Union gives them, yet they won't pay the weekly contribution, without which the Union can't exist. Go and find out who they are, and blow them up." "What! me disturb the balmy?" "Bother the balmy! I can't be worried with such trifles. I'm inventing." "But, Mr.
Little, would not the best way be for YOU just to stop it quietly and peaceably out of their pay, and send it to Grotait?" Little, after a moment's reflection, said he had no legal right to do that. Besides, it was not his business to work the Saw-grinders' Union for Grotait. "Who is this Mary Anne?" "The saw-grinders, to be sure." "What, all of them? Poor Mary Anne!"
All this time there was a hot discussion in the journals, and the Saw-grinders' Union repudiated the outrage with horror, and offered a considerable reward. Outsiders were taken in by this, but not a single manufacturer or workman. Mr. Holdfast denounced it as a Trade outrage, and Ransome groped the town for evidence.
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