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Through the mill

Through the mill

by Frederic Kenyon Brown

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Author
Brown, Frederic Kenyon, 1882-1970
Title
Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy
Original Publication
United States: The Pilgrim Press,1911.
Credits
David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
Subject
Textile workers -- United States
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68521
Release Date
July 14, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THROUGH THE MILL
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.Note
  7. 7.Contents
  8. 8.Illustrations
  9. 9.Untitled
  10. 10.Chapter I. A Mixture of Fish, Wrangles, and Beer
  11. 11.Untitled
  12. 12.Chapter II. Dripping Potatoes, Diplomatic Charity, and Christmas Carols
  13. 13.Untitled
  14. 14.Chapter III. My Schoolmates Teach me American
  15. 15.Untitled
  16. 16.Chapter IV. I pick up a handful of America, make an American cap, whip a Yankee, and march home whistling “Yankee Doodle”
  17. 17.Untitled
  18. 18.Chapter V. I cannot become a President, but I can go to the Dumping Grounds
  19. 19.Untitled
  20. 20.Chapter VI. The Luxurious Possibilities of the Dollar-Down-Dollar-a-Week System of Housekeeping
  21. 21.Untitled
  22. 22.Chapter VII. I am given the Privilege of Choosing my own Birthday
  23. 23.Untitled
  24. 24.Chapter VIII. The Keepers of the Mill Gate, Snuff Rubbing, and the Play of a Brute
  25. 25.Untitled
  26. 26.Chapter IX. A Factory Fashion-plate, the Magic Shirt Bosom, and Wise Counsel on How to Grow Straight
  27. 27.Untitled
  28. 28.Chapter X. “Peter One-Leg-and-a-Half” and His Optimistic Whistlers
  29. 29.Untitled
  30. 30.Chapter XI. Esthetic Adventures made possible by a Fifteen-Dollar Piano
  31. 31.Untitled
  32. 32.Chapter XII. Machinery and Manhood
  33. 33.Untitled
  34. 34.Chapter XIII. How my Aunt and Uncle Entertained the Spinners
  35. 35.Untitled
  36. 36.Chapter XIV. Bad Deeds in a Union for Good Works
  37. 37.Untitled
  38. 38.Chapter XV. The College Graduate Scrubber Refreshes my Ambitions
  39. 39.Untitled
  40. 40.Chapter XVI. How the Superintendent Shut us Out from Eden
  41. 41.Untitled
  42. 42.Chapter XVII. I Founded the Priddy Historical Club
  43. 43.Untitled
  44. 44.Chapter XVIII. A Venture into Art
  45. 45.Untitled
  46. 46.Chapter XIX. A Reduction in Wages, Cart-tail Oratory, a Big Strike, and the Joys and Sufferings thereof
  47. 47.Untitled
  48. 48.Chapter XX. My Steam Cooker goes wrong. I go to Newport for Enlistment on a Training-ship
  49. 49.Untitled
  50. 50.Chapter XXI. The Ichabod of Mule-rooms, some Drastic Musing, College at my Finger-tips, the Mill People wait to let me pass, and I am Waved into the World by a Blind Woman
  51. 51.Untitled
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