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If they were paid for every day's work, be it much or little, they sang, "By the d-a-y! by the d-a-a-y! by the d-a-a-a-y!" and the needles went in and out as slowly as the coaches of a funeral procession; but if they were paid for every garment they finished, then they sang, "By the job! by the job! by the job!" and the needles stitched away like an express train!
She saw him toeing the stripe in the carpet before her; she heard his high sweet sing-song: "Sixty sec-unds make a min-it. Sixty min-its make a nour. Sixty hours make no; I mean twenty-four hours make a d-a-a-y." That was the way the Boy said it God bless the Boy! The Mother got up abruptly. "I think I will go up and call on William," she said, unsteadily. The Patient Aunt nodded gravely.
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