| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1118 |
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was the technical term for dirt out of the garden - and the surface was skimmed over with proper material. Ceilings that were not very dirty were not washed off, but dusted, and lightly gone over with a thin coat of whitewash. The old paper was often left upon the wails of rooms that were supposed to be stripped before being repapered, and to conceal this the joints of the old paper were rubbed down so that they should not be perceptible through the new paper. As far as possible, Misery and the sub-foreman avoided doing the work the customers paid for, and even what little they did was hurried over anyhow. A reign of terror - the terror of the sack - prevailed on all the `jobs', which were carried on to the accompaniment of a series of alarums and excursions: no man felt safe for a moment: at the most unexpected times Misery would arrive and rush like a whirlwind all over the `job'. If he happened to find a man having a spell the culprit was immediately discharged, but he did not get the opportunity of doing |
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