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    168 WAREHOUSE SEAMSTRESSES.

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    " Let her alone / ' bawls a certainly not very respectable woman , t a female plait ? Sampson Use it , up with , miss a sl , y ever wink y inch . " , I Would always ye do have . No her use keep to And then

    kind the notice speaker of honesty bod , who y h , contrived was , let one ' em of at min the ni d ght chief their to of own abstract sinners business the in respect . p " lait from of those that the

    in unsuspecting the order . girl The 's poor bag , which girl never was was fairly able distributed after to among make more than the others . to her

    excepting simp Yet le what " yes the " homage abstraction outweig did hed the of the her . worst asseverations lait in the no room one of dared fifty pay others to insult . ; and Her or ,

    p , injure her in any particular . The same big bad woman almost wort shi he pped woman her rose ; once up when in a fury nearl , " y What fainting ¦ ! " , she some exc one laimed it offered dear , " would f her gin ye ,

    make her a d—1 like the rest of us ; don't touch , or your life I ' ve , we a bit 'll left help of ye my with screw your . Good order — : you I'd sooner shall have see her a cup stabbed of tea . " , and

    On one occasion the woman "was in a violent passion , was but uttering dropped she on the confessed her most seat shocking afterwards and became ly profane to silent the language . writer Some that , thoug when while ht suddenl she she -was y was she ill ,

    " going on" Miss C . " lifted her pretty eyes and gave her such a look , that anybody might have knocked her down with a Jb feather . "

    More than once has this person , who was the terror o _^ . er own late neig , _hbourhood as her protectress , accompanied , and Miss no mother C . to her could home have when g it iven has more been

    excellent advice than that which she addressed to her on the * way . guard never She entreated to against talk gen to her tlemen young never _, for " chaps to in touch " , the " but slacks gin more , for " many especiall " the good devil y but to g was irls be the got in on irl it her led ;"

    destruction away , and . they To , mind the gentlemen and her , never meant because anything she " kneio how g ; ' " s say prayers as " And for , herself " she , added " nobod , on y ever parting teached , "I her don nothing ' t expect that Ws any was use good , but . "

    _there'll he no harm if ye offer a prayer for me" And then the threatened woman went the and got of the drunk first , and swore that , should at the policeman half a , word and eyes person say

    to her . Another female , a mantle hand , said also on one occasion , " I nmst throat change if I my do seat for , I she can makes 't sit opp me osite feel Jessie ten thousand D ., I shall times cut

    wickeder my than ever . , I . can't bear real good people , they make me rave but I . know / would that g never ive every can be limb " of Oh ? ny bod there y to are be as sad good humiliatin as she is g " yes

    scenes in these places , but here . is frequentl , , y to be seen the sublimest spectacle on earth—Virtue in the presence of Infamy

    uncon-; aminable But now by the surrounding terrible " pollution slacks " . are come . The master informs

    168 Warehouse Seamstresses.

    168 _WAREHOUSE SEAMSTRESSES .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/24/