I had had my salary raised, and I had ceased doing janitor work.

What did janitors and cleaning ladies say to one another?

I worked my way through doing janitor-work.

An attempt was made to employ these in grading roads, laying out paths, helping on the farm, doing janitors' work, and the like.

I remained there a year, doing janitor work as a means of livelihood, and leaving eventually because the strain was more than I could bear.

"They did janitor work," I said, "and they used to come up the stairs at the back and sat up there in the balcony."

"When he first entered the school," she writes, "he paid for his schooling by doing janitor's work, sweeping the floor and ringing the bell.