brethren at the Shining Light Chapel, where he was superintendant of
the Sunday School, or `Misery' or `Nimrod'; as he was named behind his
back by the workmen over whom he tyrannized, was the general or
walking foreman of `manager' of the firm whose card is herewith
presented to the reader:


RUSHTON & CO.
MUGSBOROUGH
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Builders, Decorators, and General Contractors
FUNERALS FURNISHED
Estimates given for General Repairs to House Property
First-class Work only at Moderate Charges


There were a number of sub-foremen or `coddies', but Hunter was THE
foreman.

He was a tall, thin man whose clothes hung loosely on the angles of
his round-shouldered, bony form. His long, thin legs, about which the
baggy trousers draped in ungraceful folds, were slightly knock-kneed
and terminated in large, flat feet. His arms were very long even for
such a tall man, and the huge, bony hands were gnarled and knotted.
When he removed his bowler hat, as he frequently did to wipe away with
a red handkerchief the sweat occasioned by furious bicycle riding, it
was seen that his forehead was high, flat and narrow. His nose was a
large, fleshy, hawklike beak, and from the side of each nostril a deep
indentation extended downwards until it disappeared in the dropping
moustache that concealed his mouth, the vast extent of which was