[The Measure of a Man by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Measure of a Man CHAPTER XII 18/41
How goes all with you ?" "Why, John, it goes and goes, and I hardly know where it goes or how it goes, and the mischief of it all is this--some are getting so used to the Government feeding and clothing them that they'll think it a hardship when they hev to feed and clothe themselves." "Not they, or else they are not men of this countryside.
How is Harry? I heard a queer story about him and others yesterday." "Queer it might be, but it was queer in a good way if it is set against Harry.
What did you hear ?" "That Harry had trained a quartette of singers and that they had given two concerts in Harrow-gate and three in Scarborough and Halifax, and come back with nearly five hundred pounds for the starving mill-hands in Hatton District." "That is so--and I'm thankful to say it! People were glad to give.
Many were not satisfied with buying tickets; they added a few pounds or shillings as they could spare them.
Lord Thirsk went with the company as finance manager.
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