He's got to look after everything, you know, or everything would go wrong.

So He gives me the leather and the tools and the hands--and I must say the head, for it wants no little head to make a _good_ shoe to measure--and it is as if He said to me--'There! you make shoes, while I keep the stars right.' Isn't it a fine thing to have a hand in the general business ?" And Hector looked up with shining eyes in the face of the little boy, while he pulled at his rosin-ends as if he would make the boot strong enough to keep out evil spirits.
"I think it's a fine thing to have to make nice new shoes," said Willie; "but I don't think I should like to mend them when they are soppy and muddy and out of shape." "If you would take your share in the general business, you mustn't be particular.

It won't do to be above your business, as they say: for my part, I would say _below_ your business.

There's those boots in the corner now.

They belong to your papa.