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Updated: May 19, 2025
Not power, but dexterity, watchfulness, quickness and the ability to walk as children walk and watch as age should watch. No wonder that in a few months the child becomes, not the flesh and blood of its heredity, but the steel and wood of its environment. Bull Run and Seven Days were doffers, and confined to the same set of frames.
Besides all these, the factories employ numbers of children doffers for mounting and taking down bobbins, and a few men as overlookers, a mechanic and an engineer for the steam-engines, carpenters, porters, etc.; but the actual work of the mills is done by women and children. This the manufacturers deny.
It was the home of John Corbin, and Willis, his ten-year-old son, was one of the main doffers. The father was lounging lazily on the little front verandah, smoking his pipe. "What's the matter with Willis?" asked Jud after he had come up. "Why, nothin' " drawled the father. "Aint he at the mill?" "No the other four children of your'n is there, but Willis aint."
Last of all they kept sober company with two or three lame persons and a cheerful delayed little group of new doffers, the children who minded bobbins in the weave-room and who were young enough to be tired and even timid. One of these doffers, a pale, pleasant-looking child, was all fluffy with cotton that had clung to her little dark plaid dress. When Mrs.
The work is lightened for her by the fact that whereas she formerly placed the bobbins on the warp, doffers now do this for her. But the increased stamping of the pedals made necessary by the larger task is very tiring. There are no women on bonus in the weave room, where the warp and the filling are now carried.
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