id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38932 Walker, Charles R. (Charles Rumford) Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker .txt text/plain 40486 2878 89 bought some second-hand clothes and went to work on an open-hearth furnace helper, working the twelve-hour day, and a Boston broker, owning He looked away again and said, "They want a man on the night-shift. "I'm looking for something for working-clothes," I said; "second-hand don't use that shovel for mud!" said the second-helper on Number who looked as if he could work the turn and then box a little in the "Need a man to-night; want to work?" he said; "always short, you know, Now look here, suppose a man works like hell to fix "I work three week open-hearth," he said, "too hot, no good." "No," I said; "I have worked on the open-hearth furnaces a little. "Yes, I think I'll like blast-furnace work," I said, "if I get to be went in first, with pick and shovel, and worked an hour. The day is made up of jobs like these--shoveling manganese at tap-time, ./cache/38932.txt ./txt/38932.txt