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George was greatly interested in what the Tangye Brothers were doing for their employees. Instructive lectures by capable men were given weekly to their workmen, while they ate their dinners. Medical aid was furnished free, and in many ways practical assistance was rendered their working force.
The smoke of five-and-twenty bonfires crawled up the hillside and completely hid John Penaluna's garden hid the two figures standing there, hid the little summer-house at the top of the slope. It was enough to make a man swear, and Captain Tangye swore. John Penaluna drew a long breath. "Well, good-bye and bless 'ee, Zeke. Hester's up in the summer-house.
Yet he had managed to succeed without, in the process, sacrificing jot or tittle of his principles; and to-day he held a position that any member of his profession across the seas might envy him. "Yes, but till you got there!" cried Tangye. "Hasn't every superfluous bit of you every thought of interest that wasn't essential to the daily grind been pared off?"
They'd do better with my sort if they knocked us on the head betimes, and boiled us down for our fat and marrow." Not much in that line to be got from YOUR carcase, my friend, thought Mahony, with an inward smile. But Tangye had paused merely to draw breath. "What I say is, instead o' layin' snares for us, it ought to be forbid by law to give men o' my make ship room.
Zeke handed him half-a-dozen matches. "I dunno how many 'twill take," said John. "S'pose we go round together and light up. 'Twont' take us a quarter of an hour, an' we can talk by the way." Ten minutes later, Captain Tangye, across the harbour, shut his telescope with an angry snap.
Tangye, to put our brief span to the best possible use, we must never lose faith in God or our fellow-men; never forget that, whatever happens, there is a sky, with stars in it, above us." "Ah, there's a lot of bunkum talked about life," returned Tangye dryly, and settled his glasses on his nose. "And as man gets near the end of it, he sees just WHAT bunkum it is.
Tangye cheerfully accepted the fiction with its implication of Scottish descent, and was known at home and in various out-of-the-way parts of the world as Nolim or Nummy. He even carried about a small volume of Burns in his pocket; not from any love of poetry, but to demonstrate, when required, that Scotsmen have their own notions of spelling.
The old man had on his best blue cut-away coat, and paused now and then to wipe his brow. "I take this as very friendly," said John. Captain Tangye grunted. "P'rhaps 'tis, p'rhaps 'tisn'. Better wait a bit afore you say it." "Stay and have a bit of dinner with me and the missus." "Dashed if I do! 'Tis about her I came to tell 'ee." "Yes?" John, being puzzled, smiled in a meaningless way.
There was a difference, and Captain Tangye would, no doubt, have perceived it long before had not Death one day come on him in an east wind and closed his activities with a snap, much as he had so often closed his telescope. For a year or two after Zeke's departure, John went on enlarging his garden-bounds, though more languidly.
Neither here nor in any of the mines have stone-breakers or automatic feeders yet been introduced: the stuff is all hand-spalled. One small 'Belleville' drives the stamps, another works the Tangye pump, and a third turns the saw-mills. I will notice a few differences between the Swanzy system and that of Effuenta. The wooden framework of the stamp-mill is better than iron.
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