What with the machines, and the low price of labor, and the high price of bread, they are having a terrible time of it.

And no wonder that we hear of frame breaking in Nottingham, and Lancashire, and other places.

How men can be wicked enough to make machines, to take the bread out of poor men's mouths, beats me altogether." "Father says the machinery will do good in the long run, Abijah--that it will largely increase trade, and so give employment to a great many more people than at present.

But it certainly is hard on those who have learned to work in one way to see their living taken away from them." "Hard!" the nurse said.

"I should say it were hard.