It wasa particularly unattractive Italian in charge of a dull-eyed little boyof no ascertainable relationship....In the worst days of cotton-milling in England the conditions werehardly worse than those now existing in the South. Children, the tiniestand frailest, of five and six years of age, rise in the morning and,like old men and women, go to the mills to do their day's labour; and,when they return home, "wearily fling themselves on their beds, tootired to take off their clothes.
The sun was... read more
