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I registered as a night-school student and asked to be assigned to the carpenter-shop, as that seemed more in line with coopering. This division was so crowded that I was forced to take shoemaking instead. At this trade I worked two years and attended night-school.
It measured thirty-six by sixteen inches, and was just outside the front window. At one end was a small currant bush and in the rest of the space Anna grew an annual crop of nasturtiums. Once we were prosperous. That was when two older brothers worked with my father at shoemaking.
Equally skilful were they in taking the horn of an ox or mountain sheep, heating it, and then shaping it into a drinking-cup, a spoon, or a ladle, and carving upon it designs that equal those found upon the pottery of the ancient world. Shoemaking was extensively carried on, for sale on the ranches and to the trading-vessels.
When the weather kept them in harbour, all such as knew any useful trade were taken off the galley to the town of Dunkirk, and there set to work under guard, some at the making of new clothes or the repairing of old ones; others at carpentry, plumbing, or shoemaking; others, again, at repairing the fortifications, and so on thus allowing room for the residue to scrub out the galley, wash down the benches and decks, and set all ship-shape and in order: of which residue Tristram was one, being versed in no trade but that of gardening, for which there seemed to be no demand.
Then follows "two combs" he was going to keep slicked up also earthenware, indigo, "cotting," and more scanes of silk, mainly for Sarah, no doubt, and so on to the end, when the account is closed and underneath is written: This day made all even betwixt Ezekial Jackson and myself. Captain Ben's accounts close in 1829, but the shoemaking records had long since begun.
And he who is not on a voyage has no need of a pilot? No. Then in time of peace justice will be of no use? I am very far from thinking so. You think that justice may be of use in peace as well as in war? Yes. Like husbandry for the acquisition of corn? Yes. Or like shoemaking for the acquisition of shoes, that is what you mean? Yes.
"But people who bake black bread are not respected as handicraftsmen no more than the washerwoman! Tailoring and shoemaking, they are proper crafts, with craftman's tests, and all the rest." "Yes, shoemaking of course is another thing," said Jeppe. "But as many proverbs and sayings are as true of you as of us," said Bjerregrav, desperately blinking.
A little passing attention, a hint now and then from his head, was sufficient to keep his hands right, for they were so used to their work, and had been so well taught by his head, that they could pretty nearly have made a pair of shoes of themselves; so that the shoemaking trade is one that admits of a great deal of thought going on in the head that hangs over the work, like a sun over the earth ripening its harvest.
"He is a farmer; but his farm is small, and not very profitable." "So you thought you would leave home and try something else?" "Yes, sir." "Well, we will try you at shoemaking. Robert, you can teach him what you know about pegging." "Come here," said Robert. "What is your name?" "Harry Walton." "How old are you?" "Fifteen." "Did you ever work much?" "Yes, on a farm."
But they say, that not only the virtues and vices, not only the passions, as anger, envy, grief, and maliciousness, not only comprehensions, fancies, and ignorances, not only arts, as shoemaking and working in brass, are animals; but besides these, also they make even the operations bodies and animals, saying that walking is an animal, as also dancing, supposing, saluting, and railing.
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