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laugh less at the flint-knappers in particular than at 

 human nature in general. Some of them were 

 bewailing their small profits. Except that they 

 worked under cover* said one, they were not better 

 off than the farm labourers. ' Well,' I said, jestingly, 

 ' you can, at all events, strike to get your wages up.' 

 But the spokesman shook his head gravely. ' There 

 were so many in the trade,' he replied, 'you could never 

 get them to agree \ ' 



