I20 EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN 



difficulty in what is called "breaking joint" — 

 that is, in keeping sufficiently separated the 

 vertical joints between successive layers of bricks. 

 But now and again, at a corner, this difficulty 

 occurs, and some men get over such difficulties 

 of their trade in one way, some in another. It 

 happened to the writer to come across a young 

 bricklayer who turned the corner in a way of 

 his own. Having reached his difficulty, he took 

 measurements ; and the same evening, having in 

 his leisure at home thought it out, he made a 

 drawing, showing how he proposed to lay each 

 brick ; and he took his drawing with him in the 

 morning and worked by it. It is impossible to 

 suppose that work, to that man, was monotonous 

 or hateful. 



It is quite possible to see, by means of an 

 illustration, what happens when interest once 

 wanting is restored to work. We can see it in 

 the training of the British Army, we can see 

 the difference in value that has followed the 

 conversion of an army of soldiers uninformed and 

 indifferent to an army acquainted with its aim, 

 and become determined to reach it. 



In the days of the great Frederick it was not 

 judged necessary to explain to the troops the 

 why and wherefore of each movement ; and, in- 

 deed, the men at least knew, as certainly as the 

 general, that they would not fire a shot, nor 

 hear the whistle of a bullet, until they had 

 arrived within a few yards of the enemy they had 

 seen while still far from his position. The officers, 

 then young, adhered to the old notion when, 



