This division was so crowded that I was forced to take shoemaking instead.
At Wiley I was kindly received by Bishop Scott, and entered into a contract with him to teach shoemaking for my board and the proceeds of the shop.
I am supposing still that I saw Salem before I saw Boston, but however the fact may be, I am sure that I decided it would be better to see shoemaking in Lynn, where I really did see it, thirty years later.
Added to his labours in shoemaking and metaphysics, Drew became a local preacher and a class leader.
Drew next removed to the neighbourhood of Plymouth to work at his shoemaking business, and while at Cawsand he won a prize for cudgel-playing, in which he seems to have been an adept.
He was now sixteen, and his father sought out a good man who would receive him as apprentice to the shoemaking trade.
The former teacher returned, and the poor preacher again took to shoemaking for the village clowns and the shops in Kettering and Northampton.
Such permanent organizations existed prior to the twenties only in two trades, namely, shoemaking and printing.
The shoemaking industry, which during the sixties had reached the factory stage, illustrates this in a most striking manner.
Was it not a little surprising that one who so cordially disliked shoemaking should voluntarily undertake a task so repugnant as this!
My shoemaking is nearly over, Mr Willie," he said.
At the age of seven he was apprenticed to his uncle to learn the shoemaking trade.
The venture did not pay, and returning to Massachusetts he took to shoemaking again until 1870, when he removed to Brockton to become superintendent of the shoe factory of Porter & Southworth.
Prior to 1861 shoemaking was confined to the slow, laborious hand methods of the shoemaker.
This advanced the art of shoemakingin the finer varieties of shoes, and to-day nearly all men's fine shoes are made in this way.
His shoemaking lost nothing when he was deepest sunk in some one or other of the words of his Lord, which he sought eagerly to understand--nay, I imagine his shoemaking gained thereby.
And Mistafor gave him a skilful master to teach him the art of shoemaking that he should become the best and most skilful of all workmen in that craft.
In this form shoemaking has become a thriving industry in New England and in some other parts of the United States.
From his schoolboy days until he entered on political life he seems to have been connected both with shoemaking and farming, but chiefly with the former occupation.
One can easily understand how shoemaking would pay better before the invention of machinery than it does now, yet it appears strange to us to read of men making anything like a fortune by so humble a craft.
His father was a Cornish miner, and so poor that he was obliged to send his boy out to earn his living at shoemaking as soon as he was able to work.
He seems to have combinedshoemaking with his other avocations, for one notice speaks of him as by turns hostler, gardener, cobbler, and coal-heaver.
The brothers at once agreed to take him under their care, find him in food and clothing, and teach him the craft of shoemaking until he should be able to obtain his own livelihood.
James Nichol of Traquair, Selkirkshire, who in his shoemakingdays "published two or three volumes of poetry.
Farther eastward, however, the character of the mills changes, and at Brookfield shoemaking villages appear, while elsewhere there are textile and leather factories.
The rest of the population have gone intoshoemaking and other manufactures.
Natick is now a busy shoemaking town, with about ten thousand people, and in South Natick is the old Indian cemetery and Eliot's Oak.
The plan of work was faithfully kept; though by this time shoemaking had lost its charms.
Shoemaking was not found very productive; and Cooke, being fairly educated as well as self-educated, opened a village school.
He was taught his trade of shoemaking by his father, Joseph Lye, the cordwainer and soldier of the Revolution.
His earnings this day from shoemaking were but 45 cents.
He did not become a specialist in shoemaking and limit his work to one branch of the shoe trade, as do shoemakers of these days.
Joseph Lye, the diarist, learned shoemaking of his father, the Revolutionary soldier, as did many a lad of his time.
A very impressionable boy Artie was, always; the poetical temperament and the artistic temperament always is impressionable, I suppose; but shoemaking certainly does develop the logical faculties.
The practice of shoemaking undoubtedly tends to develop a very high and exceptional level of general intelligence and logical power.
He had settled down to his shoemaking again and refused to be roused by the others' impatience; but he looked as if he had an eternity in which to unravel his affairs.
Yes, shoemaking of course is another thing," said Jeppe.
Pelle set to work in earnest, and the man who was at the head of the prison shoemaking department liked to have him, for he did much more than was required of him.
Edward, as we have already said, was compelled by circumstances to work at shoemaking by day, and to work at Natural History by night.
In the first place, he wished to abandon the shoemaking trade.
As he did not cease shoemaking until nine at night, nearly all his researches were made after that hour.
The shoemaking trade having become very flat, Edward left Shoe Lane after having been there for about twenty months.
Every room was packed with the cases containing them, his shoemaking apartment included.
Edward determined to try this method of escaping from Aberdeen, and more especially from his shoemaking trade.
Edward liked his militia life much better; and, in order to get rid of the shoemaking and continue his soldier’s life, he enlisted in the 60th Rifles.
If we did, would it not be disappointing to find that the trade of shoemaking was universally disliked and despised, and that good shoemakers were hard to find at any price?
Our shoemaking is done by a shoemaker, our blacksmithing by a blacksmith, our doctoring by a doctor; but our cooking is done not by a cook, but by the woman a man happens to marry.
From their high lineage, shoemaking is named "The Gentle Craft.
He slept heavily, and his tray of shoemaking tools, and his old unfinished work, were all as usual.
It died out, as everything but his shoemaking did die out of him, and he refolded his little packet and tried to secure it in his breast; but he still looked at her, and gloomily shook his head.
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