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of the true case permits, and charge them all against the job? 

 If any other course were open, manifestly not; but he has no 

 other resource unless he consults the foreman and they go over 

 the subject together under all the disadvantages before described. 

 As a refuge from such difficulties the tendency is natural to 

 report costs as they might be, or should be. or as they once were, 

 rather than as they actually are. 



