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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: J.R. Osgood and co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE TENTH OF JANUARY. The city of Lawrence is unique in its way. For simooms that scorch you and tempests that freeze; for sand-heaps and sand-hillocks and sand- roads; for men digging sand, for women shaking off sand, for minute boys crawling in sand; for sand in the church-slips and the gingerbread-windows, for sand in your eyes, your nose, your mouth, down your neck, up your sleeves, under your chignon, down your throat; for unexpected corners where tornadoes lie in wait; for bleak, uncomforted sidewalks, where they chase you, dog you, confront you, strangle you, twist you, blind you, turn your umbrella wrong side out; for dimmykhrats and bad ice-cream; for unutterable circus-bills and religious tea-parties; for uncleared ruins, and mills that spring up in a night; for jaded faces and busy feet; for an air of youth and incompleteness at which you laugh, and a consciousness of growth and greatness which you respect, -- it -- I believe, when I commenced that sentence, I intended to say that it would be difficult to find Lawrence's equal. Of the twenty-five thousand souls who inhabit that city, ten thousand are operatives in the factories. Of these ten thousand two thirds are girls. These pages are written as one sets a bit of marble to mark a mound. I linger over them as we linger beside the grave of one who sleeps well; half sadly, half gladly, -- more gladly than sadly, -- but hushed. The time to see Lawrence is when the mills open or close. So languidly the dull-colored, inexpectant crowd wind in ! So briskly they come bounding out! Factory...

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