piece-room

Updated: May 25, 2025

The fact was, I didn't want to go home just then; I thought, maybe, if I waited a bit, my face would get back to looking as it used to. So I worked in the piece-room, light work and good pay, sent mother and Lurindy part of my wages, and paid my board to Miss Talbot.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861