 | 1842 - 610 trang
...performed by boys. The practice of employing females in coal-pits is flagrantly disgraceful to a Christian as well as to a civilized country. On descending Messrs....a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips. Here is part of the story of one of these victims : her age was seventeen : — I have to hurry myself.... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1866 - 312 trang
...WOMEN. 347 The practice of employing females in coal-pits is flagrantly disgraceful to a Christian as well as to a civilized country. On descending Messrs....dirty, slavish work, and the water quite covers our ankles. I knock my head against the roofs, as they are not so high as I am, and they cause me to stoop,... | |
 | Catherine Robson - 2001 - 270 trang
...boys and girls, some of whom were of the age of puberty, the girls as well as the boys stark naked to the waist, their hair bound up with a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips. Their sex was recognizable only by their breasts, and some little difficulty occasionally arose in... | |
 | E. Royston Pike - 2005 - 390 trang
...no brothel can beat it. 'On descending Messrs Hopwood's pit at Barnsley, I found assembled round a fire a group of men, boys, and girls, some of whom...a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips. (At Silkstone and at Flockton they work in their shifts and trousers.) Their sex was recognizable only... | |
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I found assembled round a fire a group of men, boys, and girls, some of whom were of the age of puberty; the girls as well as the boys stark naked down to the waist, their hair bound up with a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips. 