The experienced packer would have seen at a glance that a large portion of these mules were utterly unfit for the business.

He told me it was a cinch-hook hitch employed by mule packers in the mountains, and that he had used it on swamp-hooks in the lumber woods of Michigan.

In one wholesale candy factory in Manhattan no male laborer and no female hand-dipper is paid as much as $8 a week, nor does any female packer receive as much as $5.50.

It was plain that they had overheard her words, and were surprised at such sentiments from the lips of a greenhorn "packer.

Five people in a carriage in Europe is nowise unusual, but five people in an Indian one (and that a narrow, very narrow gauge), accompanied by rolls of bedding, tiffin-baskets, and all the quantity of personal luggage which is absolutely necessary, not to speak of a large-sized bird-cage (which cannot, strictly speaking, be classed as a necessary), requires the ingenuity of a professional packer of herrings or figs to adjust nicely!

The weight of his loss was in the tired packer's eyes and face and the listless droop of his shoulders.

The Mexican is a better packer than the American.

" Aldous could see the amazed packer staring at him in the gloom.

For assistants we have Mr. Reynolds and Elwyn Bean, western slope packers, and two African boys as cooks.

Short in staple, and often rotten, bad in quality, and dirty in condition, (the result too often of dishonest packers,) it was found to be exceedingly difficult to work up; and from its various defects, it involved considerable deductions, or 'batings,' for bad work, from the spinners' and weavers' wages.