At present their bodies suffer by uneven temperature; they perspire down to the waist, and then freeze to the toe.
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For the wet-grinders they might supply fires in every wheel, abolish mud floors, and pave with a proper fall and drain.
"To prevent the breaking of heavy grinding-stones, fit them with the large strong circular steel plate--of which I subjoin a drawing--instead of with wedges or insufficient plates.

They might have an eye to life, as well as capital, in buying heavy grindstones.

I have traced the death of one grinder to the master's avarice: he went to the quarry and bought a stone for thirty-five shillings the quarry-master had set aside as imperfect; its price would have been sixty shillings if it had been fit to trust a man's life to.

This master goes to church twice a Sunday, and is much respected by his own sort: yet he committed a murder for twenty-five shillings.