"You'd better go and try them, then, and see whether they'll give you work. I've turned off upwards of a hundred of my best hands, for no other fault than following you and such as you; and d'ye think I'll take you on? I might as well put a fire-brand into the midst of the cotton-waste."

'You'd better go and try them, then, and see whether they'll give you work. I've turned off a hundred of my best hands, for no other fault than following such as you. D'ye think I'll take you on? I might as well put a firebrand into the midst of the cotton-waste.'
