Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Labor at boat house and elsewhere, including blacksmith and machine work...
...Blacksmith, fixing outriggers...
Experience has shown that however willing the average man may be to concede that some preliminary training is necessary for a successful blacksmith, or a good carpenter, he could not possibly be convinced that newspaper writing requires any such apprenticeship...
...least makes them miserably uncomfortable. He is always playing tricks upon the unwary, in which he is usually discomfited. A typical example of the Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...
...appear to be considerably interested in that Yale football team," I said. "May I inquire if you are acquainted with any worthy blacksmith who turns an honest dollar or two by playing on it; or has your father some farm hands who take that way of providing for their winter's necessities...