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

CHAPTER XXII
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But, thae knows heaw it is.

Aw mun goo!" Here the omnibus came up, and I rode back to Manchester.

The whole conversation took up very little more time than it will take to read it; but I thought it worth recording, as characteristic of the people now suffering in Lancashire from no fault of their own.

I know the people well.

The greatest number of them would starve themselves to that degree that they would not be of much more physical use in this world, before they would condescend to beg.


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