Note E285 — 48.
Reading edition
It is always advisable to pay carpenters their fair wages, without any allowance of chips, which is a great temptation for them to waste timber.—M. In hewing timber, if the workman hews square, the seller of the timber loses all the gain of the Wane edges, which gain in short is a cheat, although a very customary one.—T.R.