 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1888 - 638 pages
...wool-sorting, with my slip paper cap and shears. My hours as yet at the mill have been from six to six, with an hour for breakfast, and an hour and a half for dinner, the same as the men, with the exception of an hour more for meals, which the length of my walk (ten... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - Science - 1890 - 854 pages
...proceeded at once under their overseers to their various employments. Work was continued, with intervals of an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner, until six o'clock in the evening, when the bell gave the signal for the close of the day's labour.... | |
 | William Cunningham - England - 1890 - 650 pages
...—1558. Rise of prices. Tramps. AD 1383. AD 1495. The impotent poor. till between 7 and 8 pm, half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and for the midday sleep, which was allowed from May to August. In winter they were to work during... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - England - 1908 - 390 pages
...of March to the middle of September work was to go on from 5 am till between 7 and 8 pm, with half an hour for breakfast, and an hour and a half for dinner and for the midday sleep. In winter work was to be during daylight. These legal ordinances were not... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - England - 1908 - 388 pages
...of March to the middle of September work was to go on from 5 am till between 7 and 8 pm, with half an hour for breakfast, and an hour and a half for dinner and for the midday sleep. In winter work was to be during daylight. These legal ordinances were not... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1909 - 404 pages
...was to be at his work from the middle of March to the middle of September before 5 am, and have half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and sleep, when sleep was allowed, that is from the middle of May to the middle of August; when sleep... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1910 - 762 pages
...the middle of September artificers were to work from 5 am "S lal " >ur till between 7 and 8 pm, half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and for the midday sleep, which was allowed from May to August. In winter they were to work during... | |
 | Louis Francis Salzman - Economic history - 1913 - 316 pages
...3 which were, from mid-March to mid-September, start at 5 and stop work between 7 and 8, with half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and sleep (the siesta was only to be taken from beginning of May to end of July, during the rest of... | |
 | Louis Francis Salzman - Economic history - 1913 - 306 pages
...3 which were, from mid-March to mid-September, start at 5 and stop work between 7 and 8, with half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and sleep (the siesta was only to be taken from beginning of May to end of July, during the rest of... | |
 | Louis Francis Salzman - Economic history - 1913 - 288 pages
...3 which were, from mid-March to mid-September, start at 5 and stop work between 7 and 8, with half an hour for breakfast and an hour and a half for dinner and sleep (the siesta was only to be taken from beginning of May to end of July, during the rest of... | |
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Fortifications are at all times expensive; they become more so, when the artificers are suffered to while away their time. Your carpenters must therefore begin to work at day-light, and work until sun-set, allowing an hour for breakfast, and an hour and... 
