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By slack-like he meant stoop-shouldered, as everybody grows sooner or later in a laundry. The foreman's hygienic lecture was interrupted by the warning rumble of the awakening machinery, and we scurried back to our table to make practical test of his theory.
His manner had lost all the easy familiarity of a few hours before, and he asked us in the kindest tone possible how we liked the work, and heartened us with the assurance that it wouldn't be nearly so hard in a few days, telling us to "stand slack-like" and see if it didn't make the pain in our backs better.
"Did you try my advice about standin' slack-like?" We replied to his question while the one-eyed girl carved a dill pickle and a sweet pickle each into three portions.
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