It would be all right if the men cooked the crabs at noon, when we're allowed to lay off, but they stop in the fore-noon sometimes an hour, and again in the afternoon sometimes, and eat crabs.

The foreman we have now allows it.

He does it himself." While Mr.Sutherland talked he was working.

Several of the other men were working up on top of the wharf, as Willis could tell by the sounds, but the boy's thoughts were with those three or four other men who were idling.

Were not those men employed to work as steadily as his father?
"It isn't fair for them to stop and you to have to keep on," objected Willis.