| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1510 |
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do it for, and they had a foreman whose little finger was thicker than Nimrod's thigh . Some of the men who had worked for both firms during the summer, said that after working for Dauber and Botchit, working for Rushton seemed like having a holiday. `There's one bloke there,' said Newman, in conversation with Harlow and Easton. `There's one bloke there wot puts up twenty-five rolls o' paper in a day an' trims and pastes for 'imself; and as for the painters, nearly everyone of 'em gets over as much work as us three put together, and if you're working there you've got to do the same or get the sack.' However much truth or falsehood or exaggeration there may have been in the stories of the sweating and driving that prevailed at Dauber and Botchit's, it was an indisputable fact that the other builders found it very difficult |
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