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From which two chapters it will be gathered that Robert Chalmers Fordyce was a man capable, in his ordinary working-day, of playing many parts. My wife and I would have been more than human if we had not occasionally cast a curious eye upon the relations of Robin and the Twins. Of Robin's attitude towards that pair of charmers Kitty could make little and I nothing.
This has made his volumes highly interesting and valuable; but I am deeply persuaded, that were a man of equal penetration to visit the United States with no other means of becoming acquainted with the national character than the ordinary working-day intercourse of life, he would conceive an infinitely lower idea of the moral atmosphere of the country than Captain Hall appears to have done; and the internal conviction on my mind is strong, that if Captain Hall had not placed a firm restraint on himself, he must have given expression to far deeper indignation than any he has uttered against many points in the American character, with which he shows, from other circumstances, that he was well acquainted.
The pleasantest part of the working-day in former years was the occasion when the family, drawn together by common interests and sympathies, after the heavier tasks of the day were completed, gathered around the table whose crowning symbol of good cheer was the familiar and homely old tea-pot. From this fairy godmother flowed forth a spirit of kindly toleration and genial good humor.
The usual working-day is eleven to twelve hours, often longer; in Scotland it reaches fourteen hours, and double time is frequent, when all the employees are at work below ground twenty-four, and even thirty-six hours at a stretch. Set times for meals are almost unknown, so that these people eat when hunger and time permit.
"It is decidedly cold out here; the mist rises from the river, I expect, or else your reference to the working-day world has recalled me from fairy-land. You should not speak of work in such a place as this it is incongruous." She smiled. "Ernst ist das leben," she replied quietly. "One can't forget that even at such a time as this, and in such a place."
Then, Rose, you can sit with me in the Bernese chaise, and you, John, can ride alongside of us." "But your wife is going too, isn't she?" inquired John, after a pause. "I have a child to nurse, and cannot go away," said the farmer's wife. "And I don't like to be driving about the country on a working-day," said Rose. "Oh nonsense!
'Well, really, said John, 'it is not for the present company to criticize outlandish names. 'No, said Arthur, 'it was a happy instinct that made us give my boy a good rational working-day name, fit to go to school in, and no choice either to give him the opportunity of gainsaying it, like Emma's friend, and some others Sir Percival that is to be! A hero of the Minerva press!
The long working-day was coming to an end, and the day's weariness and satiety were forgotten, and the mind looked forward filling with thoughts of the sand-hills or the woods, wandering down a road that was bright with pleasure.
"Oh, but this forest is not respectable!" said Jurgen. "Have you no ethics and morals, you People of the Wood! Have you no sense of responsibility whatever, thus to be frolicking on a working-day?" "Why, no," responded the Satyr, "of course not. None of my people have such things: and so the natural vocation of all satyrs is that which you are now interrupting."
Under this method "the number of breakdowns declined from 12 each working-day to an average of 2 a day, not one of them serious ...and due to original defective installation, which it was impossible to remedy without unjustifiable expense.... The cost of maintaining belts fell from $1000 a month to $300 a month."
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