COOLIES. 



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do not look as if they ought to work. I never saw one 

 smile, and though they showed no positive suffering, I 

 never saw one look happy. Each face seemed to be con- 

 stantly telling the unhappy story of their woes, and like 

 fragments of a broken mirror, each reflecting in all its hate- 

 ful proportions the national outrage of which they are the 

 victims. 



