They complained to the boss and wanted the manager to apologise, but the boss wouldn't listen and said they were getting very nice.
Another place was at a wood and coal yard and the boss said I'd leave in a week at that price so it wasn't any good talking.
I get thirty shillings a week for draping and the wife of the boss wants to keep on friendly terms with Mrs. Stratton and I'm a good hand, so I can organise without being victimised for it.
The union got a few pounds for her, but the boss was a regular swindler who was always beating men out of their wages and doing anything to get contracts and running everything cheap, so there was nothing to be got out of him.
And you'd get more inclined to humour the boss every time you had to try again.
The customers were all waiting for dinner and the girls were all on strike and the boss nearly went mad.
The boss would soon knock him off and let the work slide.
I suppose a man is only put on to a job when its worth more than theboss has to pay for getting it done.
When he feels independent he'll do the fair thing, and sling the job up if the boss tries to bullock him.
Strutt briefly notes the game as being similar to "Boss Out.
When an inspector is present at a whipping, the turbulent convict may be given twenty-one lashes on his bare back; in the absence of the inspector, the whipping boss is limited to fifteen lashes.
He was a free man, a boss carpenter and builder by trade, and able to read, write and cipher.
The boss of that shop told me he wanted to see me take it around for a try-out, and then it was off and away for the front.
The little captain snorted at this, but theboss evidently thought it best, so up I went, alone.
The bosschap was a bit mad, but the little captain man just laughed.
And as boss of the outfit he beat Trampas, who was settin' up for opposition boss.
He was appointed boss of this outfit in the absence of the regular foreman.
But I'm afraid Mr. Selincourt has made a big mistake in sending that languid swell of a Mr. Ferrars here to bossthe fishing.
One wolf sprang upon his shield and nearly brought him to the ground; but the sharp boss pierced its body, and he flung it from him, at the same moment that he dashed the brand full in the face of another.
He's a nice, good mannered little felly, and is the only person I ever see in the office when I went there, barrin' the boss himself.
Mr. Morris was another one that the boss used to make game of.
No, sir, for I have orders from my bossto give it only to Jerry.
Phil Hardy, theBoss Boy=; or, the Mystery of the Strongbow =86.
The boss came out and had coffee with Pauline and me, but then she had a call for him and he thought he'd rather take it in his office.
He had noticed Beryl rewriting letters two or three times, and Parrish was more likely than the boss to set down his thoughts in a logical order.
But I cannot come, because I am not boss here, and nothing but dynamite can move Mrs. Clemens away from home in the winter season.
And that reminds me, ungrateful dog that I am, that I owe as much to your training as the rude country job-printer owes to the cityboss who takes him in hand and teaches him the right way to handle his art.
When the boss came back he blew up, kicked over my piles and wanted to know if I was trying to ruin him.
His messenger went to Casey, explaining that Harriman was the new boss of the Southern Pacific.
The boss drove stakes 4x8 feet alongside a mountain of cut wood.
When he gave his name the boss said, "Too many Joe's working here.
After the men had quit work to greet the returning Three Bar boss she went over every detail of the new house.
I've been made temporary foreman of the Three Bar--just so the boss could try me out on that job for an hour or two," he remarked conversationally.
You'll likely find theboss at the blacksmith shop.
As Bangs went about his work his faded blue eyes were ever turned toward the Three Bar boss who stood in the door of the blacksmith shop.
Whatever theboss says goes with me," he returned evenly.
Maybe some day we'll lump both into one and the two of us boss the whole job.
The boss said for you to ride Blue," Morrow stated as Harris passed the group at the gates of the corral.
Without a blush he will vote for an unclean boss if that boss is his party's Moses, without compunction he will vote against the best man in the whole land if he is on the other ticket.
Its first bosswas Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings.
Preston was seated in the lone chair at the back of the pulpit, and Boss Joe and Black Jack occupied the settee near him.
I went to the boss to draw my roll, He had it figgered out I was nine dollars in the hole.
Stray in the herd and the boss said kill it, So I shot him in the rump with the handle of the skillet.
I done had one experience with this outfit, an' I fired you for a boss for keeps.
I herded and I hollered and I done very well Till the boss said, 'Boys, just let 'em go to hell.
So determined was the appearance of the captain that both McMurdo and hisboss were forced to accept the situation.
That same afternoon, as McMurdo sat smoking, lost in thought beside the stove of his sitting-room, the door swung open and its framework was filled with the huge figure of Boss McGinty.
You are the one to handle him," said the Boss approvingly.
Even Boss McGinty was ignorant as to many things; for there was an official named the County Delegate, living at Hobson's Patch farther down the line, who had power over several different lodges which he wielded in a sudden and arbitrary way.
According to your idea, there was never any hidden menace, or secret society, or Valley of Fear, or Boss MacSomebody, or anything else.
There also one may read of the shooting of Mrs. Larbey when she was nursing her husband, who had been beaten almost to death by orders of Boss McGinty.
At the sight Boss McGinty gave the roar of a wounded bear and plunged for the half-opened door.
I can't forget that I spoke my heart to you once, and that you kept it to yourself, even though the Boss himself came to ask you about it.
Baldwin had to take the proffered hand, for the baleful eye of the terrible Boss was upon him.
But mind my words: If you are in trouble, go to Boss McGinty.
Having reached the Union House, some of them mixed with the crowd in McGinty's saloon, whispering across the bar to the Boss that the job had been well carried through.
Drink and politics had made the Boss a very rich as well as powerful man.
Already he had earned the reputation of a good boon companion, a cheery reveller, and withal a man of high temper, who would not take an insult even from the all-powerful Boss himself.
If Matt Tubbs changed his nature, and began to do the right thing, it'd be the best job ever for the boys of Fairfield, because you know he's the big boss over there.
But if it makes the lads clean, manly, and ekal to emergencies, like you seem to be, it's a boss thing.
Hornung's latest story, 'The Boss of Taroomba,' which remind us by their vividness and fantastic quality of Stevenson in some of his South Sea Island tales.
You boss the job, Mrs. Ford, and then it'll be done right.
The Boss never told, course, and it never leaked out otherwise.
Jim, you ought to be the one, the very one to carry the good news straight to 'Boss Dan!
He's awful disappointed, too, to find the Boss away.
The Boss paid in full, on condition 't all hands round got their level dues.
In the morning, maybe the Boss would give him a job, and he could work to pay his keep.
But when the boss gets in a hole, somebody's got to pull him out.
He talked right up to the boss about patriotism and our duty to the returned soldier, until he made the old tyrant look like ten cents!
The armored buckler shattering, right home his lance he pressed, Driving the point through boss and plate against his foeman's breast.
