After sniffing at the soup and meat and cabbage he would exclaim: "Hebrews, 13-8." We thought it was some jibe about the fat pork, and after he had sprung it every day for a week we learned that he was hitting at the monotony of the diet.

The verse in the Bible reads: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The fellow came into the mills and sympathized with us because we worked with our shirts off.

To withstand the heat we stripped to the waist.
We didn't want to wear a shirt.

It would have clung to our flesh and hampered our moving muscles.

We were freer and cooler without any cloth to smother us.