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framed, how numerous are the objects of such fraud and op- 

 pression ! creatures, which like our insect "Stone-masons" and 

 " Tent-makers" have to begin life by labour; but, unlike them, 

 are robbed, through excess of it, of the best reward of toil 

 the quiet repose, the relished meal, the open air and cheering 

 sunshine. The Clothes-moth weaver rests in the midst of 

 plenty ; but the factory -girl weaver, her toil for a brief season 

 intermitted, has no healtkjfar enjoyment of her scanty fare, or 

 scanty hour of repose. The moth " tent-maker" having woven 

 her tiny tabernacle, roams under its shelter over the verdant 

 leaf-plains which surround her ; while the woman shirt-maker 

 (with whom it is " Stitch, stitch !" for ever) has no green spots 

 in all her weary wilderness of life. 



