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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: relief as satisfied this powerful frontiersman for the day. He, at
least, like all the educated class, did so much homage to industry as
to persuade himself he was industrious. But the average mechanic
recognises his idleness with effrontery; he has even, as I am told,
organised it.
I give the story as it was told me, and it was told me for a fact. A
man fell from a housetop in the city of Aberdeen, and was brought
into hospital with broken bones. He was asked what was his trade,
and replied that he was a TAPPER. No one had ever heard of such a
thing before; the officials were filled with curiosity; they besought
an explanation. It appeared that when a party of slaters were
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