excerpt from 'Confessions of a Tradesman' pp. 12 (108 words)
excerpt from 'Confessions of a Tradesman' pp. 12 (108 words)
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I had very little to do here [a trunk-maker’s] in the way of errand- running, but I had no idle moments, and when not occupied in the almost interminable job of dusting the stock and cleaning out the shop, I could always find work below [in the workshop], making paste and lining the cheap boxes we made for servants. And here I was quite happy, for the journeyman was a genial soul and beguiled the time with jokes and snatches of song, often too giving me a portion of his frugal dinner or a halfpenny, which I promptly invested in "broken stale " at the baker's hard by[.] |
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