Now surely, sir, comparing the language, the manners, and the spelling, with that of the ruffian whose scrawl you received this morning--" "Then you disown the ruffian's threat ?" "Most emphatically.

And if you can trace it home, he shall smart for interfering in our business." "Oh, if the trade disowns the blackguard, I can despise him.

But you can't wonder at my thinking all these letters were steps of the same--yes, and Mr.Bayne thought so too; for he said this was the regular routine, and ends in DOING a poor fellow for gaining his bread." Mr.Jobson begged to explain.
"Many complaints are brought to us, who advise the trades.

When they are frivolous, we are unwilling to disturb the harmony of employers and workmen; we reason with the complainant, and the thing dies away.

When the grievance is substantial, we take it out of the individual's hands and lay it before the working committee.