This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...familiar expression among the poor of the factories from one year's end to the other. The shopkeeper hears it a hundred times a day. It is an expression which answers for all occasions. If one has been sick, idle, drunk, this is the one sad and simple expression which the rent-man, the gas-man, the groceryman-rall hear ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...familiar expression among the poor of the factories from one year's end to the other. The shopkeeper hears it a hundred times a day. It is an expression which answers for all occasions. If one has been sick, idle, drunk, this is the one sad and simple expression which the rent-man, the gas-man, the groceryman-rall hear, week in and week out: "Business has been, slack with me!" "But it will be better when the summer is over," the pale girl said, with a hopeful lift of her face. You see the poor are permitted to hope.--Aye--thank God for it--to hope even against hope. Her brother who lived with her was a printer. He was on a strike, she said; a "lock-out" she called it. The man, who had sharpened a pencil and was dotting down some fact or fancy which seemed to strike him as the girl talked on, only nodded his head here. He made a mental note, however, and for "strike n wrote "drunk." For "lock-ont" ho wrote "lockup." And little wonder! "What else in the midst of all this misery? Why will cities always and forever put all their parks, and all their fountains, and all their pleasant places miles and miles away from the homes and places of employment of the poor, of the only people who want them, need them, when they have never either the time or the money to reach them? As for herself; yes, she had boen offered a chance to go to the seaside. But, you see, her clothes were not fit. She had been out of work so long. Business had been slack with her! "But these good ladies who offered you this chance to go to the seaside don't ask you to dress up?" "Listen to me, mister. 1 reckon they do. 1 reckon when a fine lady fixes up a cottage, and fills it with girls, she wants 'em to look ...
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