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

CHAPTER VIII
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The wife told me that they had only 6s.

a-week coming in for the seven to live upon.

My companion was the weekly visitor who relieved them.

She told me that her husband was sixty- eight years old; she was not forty.

She said that her husband was not strong, and he had been going nearly barefoot and "clemmed" all through last winter, and she was afraid he had got his death of cold.


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