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Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy

Frederic Kenyon Brown · Biographies · 52 章

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