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Title: Little Jack of all trades, with suitable representations
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Darton, William, 1755-1819 Darton & Harvey (London, England)
Subjects: Occupations Industrial arts
Publisher: London : Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, no. 55, Gracechurch-Street
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and bails, and hooks ; Pretty girl, this, to thy wish, Holds thy dinner, work, and books. Mother, \ JACK OF ALL TRADES. / Mother, here can sleep thy babe, Of its tender griefs beguiPd :From cold winds and frost to save. Buy a cradle for thy child. Basket-making is a very ingenious anduseful trade. The baker, the butcher, thefruiterer, the fishman, and many others,are indebted to the Basket-maker for theconvenient work of his hands. Millbank,at Westminster, and several small islandsin the river Thames, yield a great supplyof osiers; the twigs, when peeled, areworked into a variety of shapes, accordingto what they are designed to hold. At the school for educating the blind,in St. Georges Fields, many of the youthsare taught to make baskets. How muchmore creditable is this than begging; andif blind children c; n earn their livelihoodby following useful trades, those who en-joy the blessings of sight should indeedbe ashamed to waste their days in idle-ness, and consequent poverty, a 4 THE
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THE CARPENTER, The hatchet fells (he mighty oak, The beech and lofty pine,But for ray hand is left the stroke, Where art and strength combine* My smoothing plane brings in the cash j With chisel, saw, and square,I make the floor; the door; and sash. That lets in light and air. This trade is divided into two branches,house-carpentry, and ship-carpentry ; andconsists in cutting, forming, and joining timber JACK OF ALL TRADES. 9 timber, for the purposes of building. TheHouse-Carpenter frames roofs, and floorshouses; wainscots walls; makes doors,windows, and sashes; and builds barns,sheds, coach-houses, and stables. He uses the hatchet to chop the tim-ber, the saw to separate it into pieces forhis purpose, the plane to smooth, and thechisel to shape them, With the augurand gimlet he makes holes, and with thehammer and glue he puts the wood toge-ther. The nicety of his art lies in joining andfitting his work close; in which he is socareful, that he never depends upon hiseye, but constantly

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