subcontractor's

Updated: May 26, 2025

The day was yet young, and the long journey was still younger. It was at the noon halt, made at a subcontractor's camp near a great earth-cutting and a huge fill, that Kenneth had his object lesson. They were standing at the door of the timekeeper's shanty they had been the timekeeper's guests for the noon meal and the big gang of Italians, with its inevitable Irish foreman, was already at work.

Francis Lynde - Empire Builders