The Working-Man's Way in the World; Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer
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The Working-Man's Way in the World; Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...ability. PIe rained a perfect storm of Greek type into his empty case as he began distribution, and picked it up again when he commenced composing with proportionate rapidity; and I expected that he would reap a tremendous harvest and make short work of the whole volume. But I found that his industry was of a very fitful kind and required a vigorous stimulus. He had hardly been two hours at work, and earned as many shillings, when he assailed the overseer, who just then entered the room, for an advance of wages, on the ground of utter destitution through recent illness and want of employment. The overseer looked at what he had done, and handed him half-a-crown, with which he shot down stairs at once, and returned in a few minutes with a pint of gin, a penny loaf and a lump of cheese. The whole of the gin disappeared in the course of the next hour; the bread and cheese furnished his meals for the remainder of the day. He left at seven in the evening, borrowing a few shillings HIS TACTICS.--AN ALARMING DISCOVERT. 183 "to pay his lodging." He "showed" again next day at a quarter to ten--again borrowed his gin-money, and wasted an hour in emptying the bottle in small sips "to steady his nerves" before he began work. He was not long of discovering that I was a stranger to the customs of the trade, and took upon himself to lay down the law for the conduct of the work we were upon. He first proposed that we should work in pocket--he taking the Greek and I the Latin--a proposition which would have been advantageous to both had he possessed average industry. Finding I would not have a partnership, he informed me bluntly that I had no business to work the hours I did, and that I was robbing him by taking more than my share of a profitabl...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150844928
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150844922
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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