The older men paid no attention to him and worked right ahead to the pie and toothpick stage, but the younger fellows had been euchred out of dinner and went back to work with wabbly steps and empty stomachs.
This convinced me that the investigator was a false alarm.

If corned beef was poison, as he said, there wouldn't be a working man alive in America.

But millions have eaten corned beef all their lives and have thrived on it.

Things are never one tenth so bad as the agitators say.

They merely take the heart out of men and send them back to work weakened and unhappy.
This fellow had a favorite joke which he sprang every meal.