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HARD SLEDDING IN AMERICA.
It had been our plan to go from New York to Pittsburgh, but the mill that father was working in had shut down.

And so he had sent us tickets to Hubbard, Ohio, where his brother had a job as a muck roller--the man who takes the bloom from the squeezer and throws it into the rollers.
That's all I can tell you now.

In later chapters I shall take you into a rolling mill, and show you how we worked.

I believe I am the first puddler that ever described his job, for I have found no book by a puddler in any American library.