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sequently he takes no pains to please the customers, but 

 endeavours to make the reception as unpleasant as possible 

 by dropping, or rather throwing, his clams, with the 

 lumbering breech-band between, as heavily as he can, 

 instead of placing it quietly down as he ought and would 

 do under other circumstances ; and as justification for this 

 rudeness the man gets up from his stool and pretends to 

 make a thread, when suddenly he becomes afflicted with 

 a very obstinate cough or chronic asthma, and discovers 

 he has lost his handkerchief. The customer may pop in 

 just at the fag end of a not very elevating argument 

 between the above and his shopmates, to terminate which 

 the dye-mop has been known to perform sundry 

 evolutions in the air, and land or rebound in close 

 proximity to the visitor. Suddenly the errand boy may 

 remember that he has been ordered some time ago to 

 hammer the lead, and operates with all his might (for a 

 few seconds) accordingly. 



Such are a few, and only a few, of the disadvantages 

 to both customers and proprietors, through converting the 

 front into a workshop. If it can be by any means 

 managed, or in other words adapted to the premises, no 

 matter how small the staff, the manufactory should be 

 away from the entrance or reception room, (which the 

 front shop really is) and either at the back of the premises 

 or anywhere as near at hand as possible, but out of 

 (immediate) sight and hearing, and under the superin- 

 tendence of a reliable and conscientious foreman, who 

 should be provided with his desk, time book, clock, proper 

 rails for coats and hats, memorandum or order book for 

 entering work at once upon its arrival, (without trusting 

 to memory) and the day book for final noting at com- 

 pletion of the jobs, which books should be handed to 

 the principal every evening for charges to be added, 



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