The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

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seemed to stiffen me up, and put bone and muscle into a
follow till he felt bold as a lion ; so we set to talking over
the arrangements ; and two days arter, Polly and I was in
a lodging in London.
Nex' morning I was up at 5, and made myself smart ;
not fine, but clean, and looking as if I warn't afraid of work ;
and I finds my way to one of the big workshops, where the
bell was a-ringing for six ()clock, and the men was a-
cuffling in; while a chap with a book was on the look-
out to time the late ones, for stopping on pay-day out of
their wages,—which is but fair, yer know, for if two
hundred men lost a quarter of an hour apiece in a week, it
would come to something stiff in a year. Well, there was
a couple more chaps like me standing at the gate, come to
See if they could get took on, and one of 'em slips in, and
comes out, again directly a-swearing and growling like
anything, and then t'other goes in, and ho' comes out a-
swearing
too, and theii rfeels my heart go sinking down
ever so, low. So I says to the lust:
"Any chance of a job?" I says.
" Go to—" somewhere, he says, cutting up rough ;
so I asks t'other one.

" Any chance of a job ?" I says.
"Not a ha'portb," he says, turning his back, and going
off with the fust one; and I must say as they looked a
pretty pair of blacks.
So I stood there for quite five minutes wondering what
to do ; whether I should go in and ask for myself, or go
and try somewheres else. I didn't like to try, arter seeing
two men refused. All at once a tall sharp-eyed man comes
out of a side place and looks at me quite fierce.
" Now, my man," ho says, " what's your business ?
What do you want ?"
" Job, sir," says I.
" Then why didn't you come in and ask ?" ho says.
" Saw two turned back,'' I says.
" Oh ! we don't want such as them here," he says, "but
there's plenty of work for men who mean it ;" and then
ho looks through me a'most. "1 supposo you do mean
it, eh ?"

" Give us hold of a trowel," says I, spitting on both hands.
" Bricklayer ?" says he, smiling.
" Right," says I.
" From the country ?" says he.
" Yes," says I.
" Work slack there ?" says he.
" Awful," says I.
" You'll do," says he. " Here, Jones, put this fellow in
number four lot."

If you'll believe me, I could have taken hold of him and hug-
ged him : but I didn't, for I kep' it for Polly.
Well—l wonder how many times Pve said well since I be-
gun f—l was in work now, and I meant to keep it. Didn't
I make the bricks and mortar fly ! My hodman did his
day's work that day, if he never did it afore. Then some
of the men began to take it up, and got to chaffing ; one
says there'd soon be no work left; and another says, I'd
better have a couple o' Paddies to keep me going, one for
bricks, and another for mortar; while one fellow makes
hisself precious unpleasant, by keeping on going "puff !
puff ! puff !" like a steam-ingin, because I worked so fast.
But I let them chaff as long as they liked ; and bime-by I
comes 'to be working alongside of iny steam-ingin' friend,
and jest as ho'd been going it a little extra, I says to him
quietly—

"Ever been out o' work, matey ?"
" Not to signify," he says.
"Cause if ever you are, and come down werry close to
ground, you'll be as glad to handle the trowel again as I
am." Ho didn't puff any more that day, not as I heerd.