Like the tinsmith, who is always in the market for old kerosene tins, so is the glass blower ever open to buy broken glass of all descriptions, which he crushes and melts for the making of the many cheap articles which find a ready sale.
Glass blowing is seemingly hot, tiring and thirsty work, especially in the summer when the heat of the furnace adds to the physical dis. comforts of the operators. The proprietor of the shops does not overlook this, for he provides smal? boys who are kept constantly employed in fanning the men while at work and handing out bowls of tea as required.
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