THROUGH THE MILL

Then the Epileptic Octogenarian Let Me Go and the Pauper Line
Went in Before the Parish Clerk for the Charity Shilling

THROUGH THE
MILL

THE LIFE OF A MILL-BOY

BY
AL PRIDDY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WLADYSLAW T. BENDA

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

Copyright, 1911
By Luther H. Cary

THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS
[W · D · O]
NORWOOD · MASS · U · S · A

“Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward,

Grinding life down from its mark;

And the children’s souls, which God is calling sunward,

Spin on blindly in the dark.”

—E. B. Browning

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Note

How many thousand pens are busy reportingand recording mill life! It is a splendid commentaryon the fineness of our social consciencethat there are so many champions on behalf ofoverworked boys and girls.

Coming now, to take its place among themultitudes of investigations and faithful recordsof factory life, is this frank, absolutely real anddispassionate Autobiography—written by a mill-boywho has lived the experiences of this book.So far as can be found this is the first time thatsuch an Autobiography has been printed inEnglish.

Since its appearance in the Outlook, theAutobiography has been entirely rewritten andnew chapters have been added, so that thebook will be practically new to anyone whochanced to read the Outlook chapters.

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THROUGH THE MILL

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