I'm an old Saw." "Excuse me, sir, you look like a gentleman, and talk like one." "And I try to conduct myself like one: but I AM an old Saw." "What! and carry a gold eyeglass ?" "The Trade gave it me.

I'm an old Saw." "Well, then, all the better, for you can tell me, and please do: have you ever actually known fatal accidents from this cause ?" "I have known the light grinders very much shaken by a breaking stone, and away from work a month after it.

And, working among saw-grinders, who use heavy stones, and stand over them in working, I've seen--Billy, go and look at thy shilling, in the yard, and see which is brightest, it or the moon.

Is he gone?
I've seen three men die within a few yards of me.

One, the stone flew in two pieces; a fragment, weighing about four hundredweight I should say, struck him on the breast, and killed him on place; he never spoke.