Excerpt from The Making of a Man: A Novel Industry of the place. The Stourton Granite Company made pretty constant calls upon him, and gave him enough work, of a rough-and-ready character, to keep his surgical hand in. For the quarries were prolific in accidents: hardly a week passed by without a damaged limb or worse, from falling stone or runaway truck or slippery foothold. Stourton was all scarred and seamed with quarries, dotted with mounds of rubbish, poisoned with flying clouds of dust and smoke, deafened by the grinding clatter of machinery. It was not, for its own sake, an ideal place to live in; and possibly this was one reason why its doctors were so ready to exchange into another practice. Other reasons might have been found in the fact that the quarrymen belonged to a club, and displayed a natural inclination to get something mare than their money's worth out of their medical attendant; and also in the fact that the neighbourhood was not particularly rich in possible patients of the best class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.