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Thence we mount to the potting-rooms, where a dozen skilled workmen try to keep pace with the growth of the imported plants; taking up, day by day, those which thrust out roots so fast that postponement is injurious. The broad middle tables are heaped with peat and moss and leaf-mould and white sand.
Herbert; for besides his own bounty, he collected and returned most of the money that was paid for the rebuilding of that Church; he kept all the account of the charges, and would often go down to state them, and see all the workmen paid. When I have said, that this good man was a useful friend to Mr.
The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in these workers by my giving, not the actual measurements, but a strictly accurate illustration: the difference was the same as if we were to see a set of workmen building a house, of whom many were five feet four inches high, and many sixteen feet high; but we must in addition suppose that the larger workmen had heads four instead of three times as big as those of the smaller men, and jaws nearly five times as big.
We walked slowly past the tall, blank-faced building, and were just turning to re-pass it when a steam whistle sounded, a wicket opened in the main gate, and a stream of workmen each powdered with white, like a miller emerged into the street.
"And so," Hessel wound up, "we workmen too must be led to victory by educated men." "You overlook one point, however," remarked Wilhelm. "To be your leader, one must before all things share your convictions." "It is quite impossible that an educated and thoughtful man should not see the injustice of the present social system.
"What's the trouble? Why so blue?" Rybin asked, tapping his knee. "Nothing." "Are you a workingman, too?" asked Yefim, nodding his head toward the Little Russian. "Yes," Andrey answered. "Why?" "This is the first time he's seen factory workmen," explained Rybin. "He says they're different from others." "How so?" Pavel asked.
The blades of the cattle guard were so stained, and between the blades was a fresh imprint of a shoe where plainly one man in his hurry to escape the shower of blows, missed his footing in the dark and went down between the blades. Early that morning workmen going into the city to work, picked up three hats from the ground, still damp with blood.
The first operation was to slice off a part of the outer hard wood till the pith appeared. The log was then rested on bamboo trestles a couple of feet from the ground. The two workmen now cut across the longitudinal fibres and the pith together, leaving however, a part at each end untouched, so that the log formed a rough trough.
It is laid with impressive ceremonies; the assistance of speculative masons is often, and always ought to be, invited, to give dignity to the occasion; and the event is viewed by the workmen as an important era in the construction of the edifice.
Similarly, in a stoneyard there is no point in the architect being at the same time a workman, nor have all the workmen the same functions.
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