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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXI--THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
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for car fare, 2d.

for stamps, 2.5d.for glue, and 1d.

for string, so that all they earned between them was 1s.9d., or a daily wage each of 10.5d.
In the second ewe, before the Luton Guardians a few days ago, an old woman of seventy-two appeared, asking for relief.

"She was a straw-hat maker, but had been compelled to give up the work owing to the price she obtained for them--namely, 2.25d.each.

For that price she had to provide plait trimmings and make and finish the hats." Yet this mother and her three children we are considering have done no wrong that they should be so punished.


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