ABSTRACT
It is provided with good strong tables and forms, and kept very clean and orderly. Adjoining this room is a smaller one, used for the sole purpose of warming the provisions of the work-people; it is well fitted up, with a steam-apparatus, troughs, shelves, &c. The children and others, who live at a distance, bring their breakfast, dinner, and tea, when they come to work, in tin cans (which are all numbered), and place them on the particular shelf allotted to the room in which they work. A man (and sometimes also a woman) looks after this room, and gets every can made warm, by means of the steam-apparatus, and all placed on their respective tables in proper time. It gave me great pleasure to inspect the arrangements of these well-regulated rooms, These preparations being over, imagine, my Lord, yourself in the room, waiting the coming of the children.
