Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 690
at we do is to pull up thefloor-boards on the ground floor first, an then wetear out the partition walls an rip off all the lathan plaster, an let all the rubbish fall into the cel- lar. Next we go up to the second floor, rip thatout, an let all that stuff drop straight into thecellar; an so on to… … KICDUCI.NG A 300-FOOT OFFICE-BUILDING TO JUNK. smashing a house down with a sledge-hammer.Takes four years to make a good bar man. A bar man? I queried. Yes; that s what they call us, because we usethese here pinch-bars, he explained, holding upone of the long steel bars with curved end…
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