He remarked that he had not been able to introduce job-work among his people.

He remarked that he had not been able to introduce job-work among his people.

"There, friend," he said, "handle your needle and palm now, as if you were at job-work.

He helped the old man milk, and had tinkered up the broken kitchen-table, and put in half a dozen window-panes, and was intimate with all the boarders; could give the masons the prices of job-work at the East, and put Stoll the carpenter on the idea of contract houses, out of which he afterward made a fortune.