............................................................... 164 Frankie’s Trade ........................................................................ ...ith a snap to it for to snap round the slave’s neck. They used to do a big trade in slave-rings at the Forge here, and ship them to all parts of Old E... ... the mistress—silver for the maid! Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.’ ‘Good!’ said the Baron, sitting in his hall, ‘But Iron—Cold Iron—is... ...How very little since things were made Things have altered in the building trade. A year ago, come the middle o’ March, We was building flats near the... ... very little since things was made Things have altered in the shipwright’s trade. In Blackwall Basin yesterday A China barque re-fitting lay, When a f... ...e’s but next-above-fool to the man that can’t do nothin’. That’s where the Unions make their mistake.’ ‘My thought to the very dot.’ Dan heard Hal sla... ...p his tight- hosed leg. ‘I’ve suffered ‘in my time from these same Guilds— Unions, d’you call ‘em? All their precious talk of the myster- ies of their... ...ke me, you’ve found yourself hin- dered by those—Guilds, did you call ‘em?—Unions, we say.’ ‘You may say so!’ Hal pointed to a white scar on his cheek... ...ned to- wards Hal—’if a man has his private spite laid up against you, the Unions give him his excuse for workin’ it off.’ ‘Well I know it,’said Hal. ...