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Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

CHAPTER VI
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a week for the last ten months.

The rent was running on.

The eldest daughter was twenty- eight years of age.

As we came away Mr Toulmin said to me, "Well, I have called at that house regularly for the last sixteen weeks, and this is the first time I ever saw a fire in the place.

But the old man has got two days' work this week--that may account for the fire." It was now close upon half-past seven in the evening, at which time I had promised to call upon the Secretary of the Trinity Ward Relief Committee, whose admirable letter in the London Times, attracted so much attention about a month ago.


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