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‘ ‘ The girls usually come into the work looking rosy and healthy; but they very soon grow pale-lipped and pale-cheeked, and soon begin to require more or less absence. When they first begin the work, they all sit very straight, and count very fast, although I always counsel them against the fast counting; for no one has ever yet undertaken it that did not break down, if young. Gradually they learn to count faster, but they cannot continue in the work but a short time. The sickness and absence become more frequent, and by and by they are obliged to leave altogether. We have those over fifty, and one of sixty years of age employed; and they are the only ones, with perhaps a single exception, who do not seem to feel the effects .”
Question. “What is the exception?” Answer. “ We have a young lady who counts easily, and looks off her work more or less, and is not in general so closely confined to her work as the others, and does not seem to feel it as much as they.”
Q. “Do you consider that she can do her work ‘mechanically,’ then?” A. “ She thinks she can.”
Q. “ Do you ? ” A. “ We do not find her work as correct.”
Q. “ You would hardly be willing to trust it?” A. “We do not.”
Q. “ Have you satisfied yourself of the way, the direction, in which this steady and concentrated labor 10