Then he would breakfast leisurely.
Thus he incurred the enmity of the cook and cookee.

Those individuals have to prepare food three times a day for a half hundred heavy eaters; besides which, on sleigh-haul, they are supposed to serve a breakfast at three o'clock for the loaders and a variety of lunches up to midnight for the sprinkler men.

As a consequence, they resent infractions of the little system they may have been able to introduce.
Now the business of a foreman is to be up as soon as anybody.

He does none of the work himself, but he must see that somebody else does it, and does it well.

For this he needs actual experience at the work itself, but above all zeal and constant presence.