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Updated: July 1, 2025
"Chug chug chug chug!" but in such a swiftly throbbing stream as to be almost a steady torrent of sound. Torrance leaped to the grade and stood, a heroic figure outlined against the dim sky, struggling to pierce the mystery with his eyes. "Speeders!" he jerked, in a breathless whisper. "Two of them, and going like hell! The rifle quick!"
But two or three women, on piece-work, earned about $9 and did nearly twice as much as the other workers. The speeders had helpers who used to assist them to thread the back of the machine and to remove and place the bobbins in front. The change or "doff" occupied about 20 minutes.
It generally occurred five times in the day of the better worker and thus consumed an hour and forty minutes of her working time. The hours in the cotton mill are ten and a half a day with five and a half on Saturday, 58 hours a week. In order to ascertain the proper task for the speeders, a time-study was made of the work of one of the abler workers, who may be called Mrs.
Almost with the touch he fired above the retreating speeders. Two spurts of flame jabbed at him through the darkness in reply, and Mahon jerked his wife to the ground. "I think, dear," he said, as he gravely lifted her to her feet, "that you shouldn't have come."
Indeed, for that matter, it was said that the only sensible thing Andrew Dornock ever uttered from the pulpit was, when he first rose to speak therein, and which was caused by a spider, that just at the moment lowered itself down into his mouth: "O Lord," cried the curate, "we're puzhened wi' speeders!"
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