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But he paid no attention to my remarks, but sez agin out loud and strong, "By thunder! I forgot the winders." "You profane man you!" sez I, pintin' to another room, "what room is this?" Sez he in a lower and more mortified tone, "It is the parlor." Sez I, "How be you goin' to git out of this room if you wuz built into it? There hain't no door nor no place for one.
The threaders, chiefly boys, and the winders, usually girls, are called for in the factory at the same time; and as their parents cannot know how long they are wanted there, they have the finest opportunity to form improper connections and remain together after the close of the work.
He's the head steward in it. All that row o' winders where you see the awnin's down, they're his an' them that ain't down, they're his, too that is to say, it's his jurisdiction. "You see, he's got the whip hand over the cook an' the sto'eroom, an' that key don't go out o' his belt unless he knows who's gettin' what an' he's firm. Morris always was. He's like the iron law of the Ephesians."
And oh, Mamma! here is almost everything, I think here are tapes, and buttons, and hooks and eyes, and darning-cotton, and silk- winders, and pins, and all sorts of things. What's this for, Mamma?" "That's a scissors to cut button-holes with. Try it on that piece of paper that lies by you, and you will see how it works." "Oh, I see!" said Ellen, "how very nice that is!
There are stamps in terra-cotta with geometrical patterns, for making lines and ornaments on the vases before they were baked, and for stamping patterns upon the cotton cloth which was one of their principal manufactures, as it is now. Connected with the same art are the malacates, or winders, which I have already described.
But we never knows wot's hidden in each other's hearts; and if we had glass winders there, we'd need keep the shetters up, some on us, I do assure you! 'But you don't mean to say Poll Sweedlepipe began. 'No, said Mrs Gamp, cutting him very short, 'I don't. Don't think I do. The torters of the Imposition shouldn't make me own I did.
Tot was delighted, and walked very carefully with the plate until she joined the little group waiting under the window, when she called out, joyfully, "Hyear 'tis, Diddie! 'tis des de bes'es kine er dinner!" And now the trouble was how to get it up to Diddie. "I tell yer," said Chris; "me 'n Dilsey'll fotch de step-ladder wat Uncle Douglas washes de winders wid."
"There; now tell me." Pete took the shilling handed, made believe to spit upon it, and thrust it into his pocket. "Winders is fastened up tight now." "What, those up higher too?" "Yes; all on 'em." "Then how am I to get in?" Pete laughed softly, and Sam grew angry. "I thought so," he whispered. "You don't know." "Oh, don't I just?" said Pete, with his sniggering laugh.
"Yes, sir at least in a permiscuous sort of way entertainin' myself as I goes with agreeable talk, and improvin' obsarvation of the shop winders, etceterrer." "Will you take a message to your mother?" "Sure-ly," answered Willie.
There is no danger of folks a-fallin' out of the winders or havin' anybody peek in unless it is the man in the moon. All round this vast room is a gallery forty feet wide, where you could lock arms and promenade, and talk about hens. But you wouldn't want to, I don't believe. You'd want to spend every minute a-feastin' your eyes on the Best of the World.
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