No one seems to be at work." "Oh?
I see.

Being part owners the natives have decided that four hours constitutes a day's work.

They pay themselves accordingly, as it were.
No one works after midday, sir." "I say, wouldn't this be a paradise for the English workingman ?" said Deppingham.

"That's the kind of a day's labor they'd like.

Do you mean to say that these fellows trudge eight miles to work every morning and back again at noon ?" "Certainly not, sir.