This must have been when I was nine or ten years old.

The books say that the Oneida Community was established there in 1847, when I was nine.
Long before this I had been put out by John Rucker to work in a factory in Tempe.

It was a cotton mill run, I think, by the water-power I have mentioned.

We lived in a log house on a side-hill across the road and above the cotton mill.

We had no laws in those days against child labor or long hours.