| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 895 |
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| Chapter | The Soldier's Children |
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During most of this time, Jack Linden's daughter-in-law had `Plenty of Work', making blouses and pinafores for Sweater & Co. She had so much to do that one might have thought that the Tory Millennium had arrived, and that Tariff Reform was already an accomplished fact. She had Plenty of Work. At first they had employed her exclusively on the cheapest kind of blouses - those that were paid for at the rate of two shillings a dozen, but they did not give her many of that sort now. She did the work so neatly that they kept her busy on the better qualities, which did not pay her so well, because although she was paid more per dozen, there was a great deal more work in them than in the cheaper kinds. Once she had a very special one to make, for which she was paid six shillings; but it took her four and a half days - working early and late - to do it. The lady who bought this blouse was told that it came from Paris, and paid three guineas |
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