 The schoolhouse was some distance from the furnace, and as I had to work till nine o'clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty. School would always be begun before I reached it, and sometimes my class had recited. To get around...  Stories of Achievement - Seite 128herausgegeben von - 1916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1900 - 1070 Seiten
...and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty. School would always be begun before 1 reached it, and sometimes my class had recited. To...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found mysetf doing morning after morning, till the furnace " boss " discovered... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 1901 - 350 Seiten
...the furnace. This clock, of course, all the hundred or more workmen depended upon to regu•v late their hours of beginning and ending the day's work....to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace " boss " discovered... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 1902 - 354 Seiten
...Ciass had recited. To get around this difficulty I yielded to a temptation for which most people, 1 suppose, will condemn me ; but since it is a fact,...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace " boss " discovered... | |
 | Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - 1916 - 512 Seiten
...nine o'clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at least two hours more of work. "The schoolhouse was some distance from the...way for me to reach school on time was to move the hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning,... | |
 | Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - 1917 - 504 Seiten
...nine o'clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at least two hours more of work. "The schoolhouse was some distance from the...way for me to reach school on time was to move the hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning,... | |
 | Booker T Washington, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond Smock - 1972 - 566 Seiten
...to .do both at Hampton and Tuskegee. But my boyish heart was still set upon going to the day-school, and I let no opportunity slip to push my case. Finally...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered... | |
 | Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 380 Seiten
...had to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee. But my boyish heart was still set upon going to dayschool, and I let no opportunity slip to push my case. Finally...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered... | |
 | Jeffrey Louis Decker - 1997 - 212 Seiten
...make it to school at the same time, he yielded to what was retrospectively an embarrassing temptation: There was a large clock in a little office in the...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2001 - 352 Seiten
...as I had to work till nine o'clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a dim"* culty. School would always be begun before I reached it,...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This ( found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 454 Seiten
...to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee. But my boyish heart was still set upon going to the day-school, and I let no opportunity slip to push my case. Finally...to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered... | |
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