HIS BUSINESS
It takes all kinds of trades, as well as men, to make a world, and the hindrance of one vacation is pretty sure to Involve man • others. The following Is an instance of this:— Stopping at an old Welsh inn, says a writer, I saw a man reading a newspaper by the fire. I asked him if business was gqod. “Bad,” he responded. “Very bad. This ’ere coal strike lias kept nearly all tha colliers idle, and don’t do me no good.” I asked him bis business. “Why. I'll bet you can’t guess if you try a dozen times.” I tried all trades without success. "Well, I’m a knocker-up.” “What on earth is that?” “Why, you don't know much about early risers. I knocks up the men who have to go to work in the pit at all hours. That’s my business. I’ve got a good many customers, and they pays me 2d a week each for knocking ’em up Id time. Now you see how the strike hurts my trade.”
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Southland Times, Issue 16842, 19 September 1911, Page 2
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173HIS BUSINESS Southland Times, Issue 16842, 19 September 1911, Page 2
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