He then confined the grinding to saws and razors; and this enabled him to set up his own forge on the premises, and to employ a few file-cutters.

It was all he could do at starting.

Then came the important question, What would the Trades say?
He was not long in suspense; Grotait called on him, expressed his regret at the attack that had been made on him, and his satisfaction that now the matter could be happily arranged.

"This," said he, "is the very proposal I was going to make to you (but you wouldn't hear me), to set up as a small master, and sell your carving-tools to London instead of to Hillsboro'." "What! will that make me right with the trade ?" "Pretty near.

We protect the workmen from unfair competition, not the masters.