Through the mill
- Subtitle
- The life of a mill-boy
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1. THROUGH THE MILL2. Note3. Illustrations4. Chapter I. A Mixture of Fish, Wrangles, and Beer5. Chapter II. Dripping Potatoes, Diplomatic Charity, and Christmas Carols6. Chapter III. My Schoolmates Teach me American7. Chapter IV. I pick up a handful of America, make an American cap, whip a Yankee, and march home whistling “Yankee Doodle”8. Chapter V. I cannot become a President, but I can go to the Dumping Grounds9. Chapter VI. The Luxurious Possibilities of the Dollar-Down-Dollar-a-Week System of Housekeeping10. Chapter VII. I am given the Privilege of Choosing my own Birthday11. Chapter VIII. The Keepers of the Mill Gate, Snuff Rubbing, and the Play of a Brute12. Chapter IX. A Factory Fashion-plate, the Magic Shirt Bosom, and Wise Counsel on How to Grow Straight13. Chapter X. “Peter One-Leg-and-a-Half” and His Optimistic Whistlers14. Chapter XI. Esthetic Adventures made possible by a Fifteen-Dollar Piano15. Chapter XII. Machinery and Manhood16. Chapter XIII. How my Aunt and Uncle Entertained the Spinners17. Chapter XIV. Bad Deeds in a Union for Good Works18. Chapter XV. The College Graduate Scrubber Refreshes my Ambitions19. Chapter XVI. How the Superintendent Shut us Out from Eden20. Chapter XVII. I Founded the Priddy Historical Club21. Chapter XVIII. A Venture into Art22. Chapter XIX. A Reduction in Wages, Cart-tail Oratory, a Big Strike, and the Joys and Sufferings thereof23. Chapter XX. My Steam Cooker goes wrong. I go to Newport for Enlistment on a Training-ship24. 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