| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1116 |
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Some of them said that they did not believe in helping their children to become anything better than their parents had been because in such cases the children, when they grew up, `looked down' upon and were ashamed of their fathers and mothers! They seemed to think that if they loved and did their duty to their children, the probability was that the children would prove ungrateful: as if even if that were true, it would be any excuse for their indifference. Another cause of the shortage of work was the intrusion into the trade of so many outsiders: fellows like Sawkins and the other lightweights. Whatever other causes there were, there could be no doubt that the hurrying and scamping was a very real one. Every `job' had to be done at once! as if it were a matter of life or death! It must be finished by a certain time. If the `job' was at an empty house, Misery's yarn was that it was let! the people were coming in at the end of the week! therefore everything must be finished by Wednesday night. All the ceilings had to be washed off, the walls |
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