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`` I have a lunch-basket to carry with me , which is aristocratic and no advantage . The other workmen have tin buckets , and tin buckets are better . I leave the house at six-thirty , and I 'm at work in my overalls at seven . I have an hour off at noon , and work again from one till five . '' `` But the work itself ? '' `` It was n't muscularly exhausting -- not at all . They could n't give me a heavier job because I was n't good enough . ''