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A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY. 387
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LXX.—A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY.
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The wet harvest-season of 1852 must have...
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not less than half a million . About one-sixth of these are o chil ver dren male or op young eratives - persons amounts , whil to e fi th fty -seven averag per e excess cent into . No fem Great less ale
B than ritain 1 , 390 in , 938 1860 , 752 , and lbs . the of raw valu co e tton of the was manufactured imported cotton expor near ted l during double tha t t year amoun was t of t p uted ex at £ ts 42 of , 138 onl , 409 ten , being * years
b very efore . y py al still tering The in s machinery ecre to form t of new t , im textures proved enormo and u suitable s increa re-improved to se each in produc chang continual t ing iveness fashion ly , ever lay y
the of and sp " inning till mul per e" f a was pound ting fi rs ts t of work in No troduced . more 8 yarn and was , wh more i forty ch , cheap in -two the ly shillings . days The when cost , in
1860 amounted to no more than tenpence , ; and again , in the 2 st s ocking . 6 d ., can work now s at be No done ttingham for , sixpence what formerl . And y of stil cost those l , as 2 s . who the or
p atten ower d them of the machine more s expan instead d , the of less services valuablefor the Nottingham st grow ocking weaverwho before earned from ; to 14
w sh it illings hin the per las w t few , since the is , ab tera le t to ions earn made from in 25 the to machiner 30 shil y -
l w ings omen . he One master loed th years ere , stated d 17 recentl shillin y that the week wages and of tha the t
the N lowest or is i sum t onl p earned y y average increased by young produc girls was t g ivenes 8 p s . 2 s d . , pecuniary
profit that progress has been made , for whereas , no longer ago tives t 100 han were in attended 1843 availing onl public y th 19 emselves per schools 100 , of of the the 18 instruction 61 children nearly of 70 to offered factory out school , of op every clean era , as
and a rule tid , y the . Infringements children were of reported the Act as are coming become - infrequent , not more than 2 in the 100 of the masters of factories throughout
report them the United during of all King the the government three dom having years inspectors preceding had informa just 1860 tion before , whil s laid e the the aga beg joint inst
in-, n desire ing of the pr all esen classes t crisis to , was fulfil , tha the t requirements there is an of increasin the law g
with exactitude among and cheerfulness . " Asterisk .
A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby. 387
A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY . 387
Lxx.—A Well-Authenticated Ghost Story.
LXX . —A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY .
The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...
The wet harvest-season of 1852 must have left an indelible thinkincreature at
impressio the time . n An on uneasy the minds feeling of , every the grave foreboding g of living a great
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/27/
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