In Paris, even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the Piraeus.
I guess she is not so anxious to have her berries rot on the vines, and most of the good pickers seem to be with Andy.
Perhaps it was the unmistakable kindness shown so plainly in the manner of the motor girls, that convinced the two little berry-pickers that the visitors would be friends--if they might.
Some pickers were women grown, some widows, some even aged women.
The pickers are on the ground as soon as the dew is off, as the berries do not keep so well when gathered wet.
The ground appeared fairly red with berries of great size, and were so abundant that pickers abandoned other fields at two cents a quart, and volunteered to pick this at one and a half.
Rag-pickers and other toilers of the night knew the house, and often saw a light burning in the lawyer's private room at unholy hours.
There has to be, or it would be swamped in filth overrunning from the courts and alleys where the rag-pickers live.
The pickers walk between the rows, and gather the cotton from the stalks on either side.
At a distance a cotton-field ready for the pickers forcibly reminds a Northerner of an expanse covered with snow.
Ordinary-pickers grasp the boll with one hand and pluck out the cotton with the other.
Skillful pickers work with both hands, never touching the bolls, but removing the cotton by a single dextrous twist of the fingers.
I never had such a cheerful crowd of cherry pickers before," Mrs. McAllister said at last.
When the cherry pickers returned to their little home they examined everything carefully.
Thus ended the last siege of the Farallones by the egg-pickers of San Francisco.
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Some of the little ones turned to Laura for protection, while the others ran screaming in the direction of the berry-patch, and a moment later the berry-pickers were seen on the side of the hill.
Late as it was in the evening there were several fresh arrivals of parties of musicians and rag-pickers from their distant walks.
Rag pickersmake the most, and are chiefly Germans.
Scarcely any person that has seen the old women rag pickers of New York in rain and snow, cold and driving winds, partially clad, can ever deny that a woman is capable of very hard and degrading labor, when driven to it by want.
Most of the rag pickers in New York live in the Five Points, and near the Central Park.
They had about thirty pickers (females), whose business it was to pick the knots and loose wool off the carpets.
These pauper tenement-house owners are in the same position to-day as the Paris rag pickers of 1830.
But it would be worse still were Parliament to allow Paris to be decimated by cholera because the rag pickers claimed a vested right in pestiferous rags.
Also, the Mexican pickersvoted solidly for the troop.
The pickers had the very best number,” Veve declared proudly.
They must be pickers for the Wingate place,” Connie declared.
Then, the Mexican pickershad their place on the program.
One can’t blame the Mexican pickers for thinking of leaving if they are mistreated,” remarked Miss Gordon when she heard Juan’s conversation repeated.
Pickers went to and from the orchard all day,” Miss Gordon declared.
She said it would be a shame if the pickers left the community.
Why, aren’t you staying with the other pickers until the crop is harvested?
Mr. Hooper wants us to bring any otherpickers we can find.
If the orchard owners want pickers they should pay us more,” said Juan with a shrug.
The mothers and fathers of the Brownies all were interested in seeing that the cherry pickersdid not leave Rosedale.
He told them he very much needed pickers because some of the larger orchards had hired most of the Mexican pickers.
It seems he can’t have his turn at the professional pickers for several more days.
If anything should prevent the Mexican pickers from coming to Pa Hooper’s orchard, he would be almost certain to lose the rest of his fruit.
If the needs of the work seem to demand it, we can put two six-hour reliefs of pickers into the field each day, with 200 pickers in each relief.
Care is taken to make the pickers as comfortable as possible.
The balmy, fragrant air, the meadow larks singing in the distance, the cheery voices of the pickers in an adjacent field, would tempt gloom itself to forget its care and stroll away through the sunlight.
It is of vital importance that our strawberry fields be near good shipping facilities, and that there be sufficient population in the immediate vicinity to furnish pickers in abundance.
Through this, in dim, uncertain outline, throngs of pickers were streaming out from the city to Mr. Young's place and the strawberry farms beyond.
The landscape grows obscure, the forms of the pickers in the distance become dim and misty, and when at last it lightens up a little, they have disappeared from the fields.
Gradually the pickers had disappeared from the Wilson field, and we at last followed them, warned by an occasional drop of rain to seek the vicinity of the house.
If green, muddy, or decayed berries are brought in, they are thrown away or confiscated, and incorrigibly careless pickers are driven off the place.
The pickers carry little trays containing six baskets, each holding a quart.
Toward these the throng of pickers now drifted, "seeking fresh fields and pastures new.
As has been already suggested, the pickers are followed by the buyers and packers, and to these men, at central points in the fields, the mule-carts bring empty crates.
There are from fifty to one hundred and fifty pickers in a squad, and these are in charge of subordinate overseers, who are continually moving around among them, on the watch for delinquencies of all kinds.
When the pickers had gathered the crop, by an ancient custom all the village children were allowed to invade the orchards for the purpose of getting for themselves any apples overlooked.
I was always pleased to hear the pickers singing, for I knew then that all was well.
Such as these were drifting in early that they might be on the ground when pickers were wanted.
It suddenly had become worth while to discuss the approaching hop harvest and the yearly influx of the hop pickers from London.
Malignant typhoid fever has broken out among the hop pickers on the Mount Dunstan estate.
To the simply conservative of mind, the idea of filling one's house with dirty East End hop pickers infected with typhoid seemed too radical.
Mere brick sheds in which the pickers slept upon bundles of hay or straw in their best days; in their decay they did not even provide shelter.
The history of the fever among the hop pickers at Dunstan village he had been able to relate in detail from the moment of its outbreak.
That night the camp buzzed like a swarm of angry bees, with threats of what the pickers would do to "them fresh nurses.
All day the air had been heavy, still; weatherwise pickers watched the white sky anxiously.
THE BOY WHO DIDN'T KNOW GOD Handbills blew around the adobe village, announcing that five hundred cotton-pickers were wanted at once in Arizona.
Everyone was picking at top speed, for there were far too many pickers and they all tried to get more than their share.
Sometimes a group of Negro pickers would chant in rich voices as they picked.
The parade of old cars limped along for two weeks, growing thicker as it drew near the part of Arizona where the pickers had been called for.
The bushel basket of cranberry beans was within easy reach, and each of the pickers had filled her lap from it again and again.
The three bean-pickers were dressed alike in stout brown ginghams, checked by a white line, and all wore great faded aprons of blue drilling, with sufficient pockets convenient to the right hand.
Orchard men should have crates enough to keep the pickers busy without emptying until they are hauled to the packing shed.
Pickers then have no occasion to wait for each other.
We will need pickers ourselves next week, Mr. Stonington, and I don't believe we can do any better than to get them from Belton.
I've got just the kind of pickersyou want, Hammond.
Across the road and up on the hill was a berry patch and in the spring there would be berry pickers up there, when they looked our way, I would put the cow hide over me and chase Clarence around the yard.
In the tomato and vegetable farms in the Sacramento valley the pickers would be out in the fields with crates stacked about six feet tall and we would fly down so low that we blew the empty crates over.
At sunrise the gates are opened and the water allowed to run off again, so that the pickers may proceed with their work.
The Indian pickers and details of the cultivation.
The pickerswork faster and faster to the strains of a rousing "Oh, Samwel, oh!
The balloon pickers were walking on high stilts picking balloons.
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