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AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK. 377
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ornamentsas in the colliers' cottages : a p , s o _Ni some ht fav . ' orite There , minister are in , such almost as Wesley every , or cottage a copy some of ' The select Cotter Sunday ' s Sat urday ks
bes quentl Cowper g ide t , he Milton Bible of , or and the Burns h expensive ymn , - or book some illustrated , an favorite occasiona book local l s volume published author of , and poetry b not F , uller su unfr ch ton e as -
Black y or some Blackie . I reckoned nineteen copies of the Imperial y Dictionary _, . Here *¦ , were _? no The cheap miners periodicals like everything or ' Peop good le ' s ed of itions its kind ; ' t . hey M are any reckoned of them
have no canny cowsand not a few a pony also to draw coals from the ' west country . ' The remarkable , transmitted personal beauty and reflected of the intelli children could and refinement be attributed which to
have noth saw i nothin ng resulted but the , lik to the th parent e earance s from mental of a , moral glected , gence and brat reli , g no ious dirt cultivation y , undarned . I g app
stockings The schoolmaster , unblacked clogs liad , or been unwashed twent faces y-five . " years at his post ; the
pressed policeman his had opinion held that a sinecure " In thez nearl dall y ten tf oonedicated ; and an old wull man seen ex he
coosaithered looniteehs _" There are three parties concerned in the question of education , ht out at this
point and their . Wherever relative position labor and s may educati be very on meet clearl and y broug put in their claims _, the childthe parentand the public are distinctly represented ; and
the _problepo , . presented , for solution is the reconciliation of their _conflicting thus : —The interests exigencies . On of behalf the famil of y the life must parents be met it may ; and "be the argued wages
of the children at and even under ten years of age are necessary to enable them to meet them . Mr . Frazer says , " In Hereford there of which children
are no fewer than six annual harvests , in each are largel potatoes and spring y emp ; 6 , loyed potato apples ; - ; setting 1 7 , , acorns bark , - and peeling . Add hop to - ; ty 2 these i , ng hay , , and bird ; it 3 the , is -keep c remembered orn incidental ing ; 4 in , hops autumn duties that ; 5 , ,
of or agricultural sixteen bab add y-nursing to shillings this wages sum and range a week sometime errand from , - and going s nine that as . much shillings When children as four to in fourteen these shillings occupations shillings or five can
shillings , and generally two shillings and sixpence , the importance In of manufacturing their earnings districts to their parents the wages becomes of children sufficientl form y an apparent item . in "
, that the It famil the may former y be earnings further is bound nearl stated to y as put in important the the c latter ase . between in the way parent of and obtaining child ,
the means of subsistence through life , and early adaptation to labor is the only way in which the obligation can be met by a laboring
to ma which " enter n . No they system in acquire after of life industrial in into real work competition training , _" says can Mr of . g Hedley iv industry e boy s th and The at h skill child andin with has ess
the laborers in the line he has chosen ; nothing but early initiation 33 E _TOLVII
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An Interesting Blue Book. 377
AN _INTERESTING BLUE BOOK . 377
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/17/
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