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But the children of the sweat-shop or the cotton-mill or the canning-factory are raised in a city slum, and never know what it is to have enough to eat, never know a feeling of security or rest We are weary in our cradles From our mother's toil untold; We are born to hoarded weariness As some to hoarded gold.
"It's almost half-past twelve," she said. "Dinner's been ready more than half an hour. Mary's furious, and it's hard enough to keep servants in this town since the canning factories started." Adelaide and Arthur laughed; Hiram smiled. They were all thoroughly familiar with that canning-factory theme. It constituted the chief feature of the servant problem in Saint X, as everybody called St.
'We must be near the canning-factory at La Dorada. The horrible smell of the slaughter-house was borne to them on the river, and there were some big corrals close by the water, and a small wharf. 'It reminds me, thought Toffy, 'of the beastly beef-tea which I have had to drink all my life. 'Good heavens! cried Ross, 'they are firing the wharf! Purvis's chances are small if this is their game.
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