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Updated: May 26, 2025
"In the next best-paid work after hand starching, the work of hand ironing, paying roughly from $8 to $18 a week, Italian women are practically never employed. "The worst part of mangle work, the shaking, is done by young girls and by incapable older women of many nationalities.
Sergeant Mahon managed to stifle outward evidence of the thrill that sent his blood tingling. He did not reply. "Don't mangle your brains over it, Boy. You've been in the Police long enough to add two and two." Still no reply. "While you're digesting it, bite on this: Most of the horses Dutch Henry and Bilsy stole last fall are back in their owners' hands." Mahon began to laugh happily.
This noise, however, was like balmy zephyrs compared to the noise the barrels insisted on making when Dicky had collected some grown-ups and the barrels were being rolled away. During this thunder-like interval Denny and Oswald were all the time in the pitch dark. They had lighted their last match, and by its flickering gleam we saw a long, large mangle.
'No, they jolly well aren't. He drew her a little aside. 'A blue-faced mandrill, silly, is real; it's in my natural history book. 'Sorry, said Dilly apologetically. 'In my natural history book it is, a real thing. I'm a blue-faced mandrill.... Now say it after me. 'You's a two-faced mangle. 'Now you're doing it on purpose! If you weren't a little girl, Dilly 'I wasn't doing it on purpose.
"As 'listed on Abaddon's side, They mangle their own flesh and slay, Tophet is moved and opens wide Its mouth for its enormous prey; And myriads sink beneath the grave And plunge into the flaming wave." "O might the universal Friend This havoc of his creatures see!" . . . They sang it lustily to the end.
When all the canes had been passed through the mangle, the screws were tightened to increase the pressure, and they were again passed through; by which time, although the juice was not so thoroughly extracted as it would have been by a more powerful machine, the quantity that remained was not important.
And now he heard more sounds, sounds of canvas being furled, or clothes passed through a mangle, or something of that sort. The conductor felt compelled to get up and look, and he went, commending his soul into the hands of the Almighty.
He nodded, somewhat absently, but said nothing. Josie felt her clever bait had not been taken, as she had expected, so she resolved to be more audacious in her remarks. "It seems a shame," she said with assumed indignation, "that the poor of the country must starve and be in want, while the money is all devoted to raising an army for the Germans to shoot and mangle."
"All I meant was," said Dick, rather sorry that he had spoken correctingly to a guest, "that 'tis in the dance; and a man has hardly any right to hack and mangle what was ordained by the regular dance-maker, who, I daresay, got his living by making 'em, and thought of nothing else all his life." "I don't like casting off: then very well; I cast off for no dance-maker that ever lived."
After staring vacantly about us for some minutes, we appealed, touching the cause of this assemblage, to a gentleman in a suit of tarpaulin, who was smoking his pipe on our right hand; but as the only answer we obtained was a playful inquiry whether our mother had disposed of her mangle, we determined to await the issue in silence.
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