Crossword-Solution: SLATING 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The son, like the father, had a strong liking for mechanics, and as the slating trade did not keep him in regular employment, especially in winter time, he had plenty of opportunity for following the bent of his inclinations.

Although the ingenious pieces of work which he turned out by his lathe did not bring him in much money, he liked the occupation so much better than slating that he was gradually giving up that trade.

His father urged him to stick to slating as "a safe thing;" but his own mind was in favour of following his instinct to be a mechanic; and at length he determined to leave his village and seek work in a new line.

His poetry is rather too erotic and passionate, you know, for some tastes; and he has just come in for a terrible slating from the —— _Review_ that was published yesterday; he saw a copy of it at the station by accident.

His enthusiasm; his hero-worship; his setting-up of one favourite and knocking-down of another; his unchristian pleasure in that awful slating of poor Jones in this week's _Saturday_, or the flaying alive of Robinson in the _Bond Street Backbiter_;--in a word, his "shop" never became wearisome to Charlotte.