I have an hour off at noon, and work again from one till five." "But the work itself ?" "It wasn't muscularly exhausting--not at all.

They couldn't give me a heavier job because I wasn't good enough." "But what will you do?
I want to know." "When I left," said Bibbs, "I was 'on' what they call over there a 'clipping-machine,' in one of the 'by-products' departments, and that's what I'll be sent back to." "But what is it ?" she insisted.
Bibbs explained.

"It's very simple and very easy.

I feed long strips of zinc into a pair of steel jaws, and the jaws bite the zinc into little circles.

All I have to do is to see that the strip goes into the jaws at a certain angle--and yet I was a very bad hand at it." He had kept his voice cheerful as he spoke, but he had grown a shade paler, and there was a latent anguish deep in his eyes.