ABSTRACT
My Lord : I now come to that part of my inquiries here, relat-
ing to the cripples. I have mefc with many; but they are in Manchester, as I find them in most places, extremely shy. In passing along the Street this morning, I overtook a young man with a wheelbarrow, in which were a few potatoes, a pair of scales, and some weights, and as he was very much crippled, I asked him if he had been in the factories. He said, yes; so I inquired how he had become so decrepid. He said, if I would wait tili he had served his customers with potatoes, he would teil me all about it. I did wait, and went home with him ; when he gave me his history, as follows :—
ivrap over each other. He is a sad spectacle to look upon; he only stands four feet ten inches high, although he spans live feet eight inches with his arms extended. He can read a little, but cannot write. He depends upon his father, and what he can make by selling little odd things to the neighbours, for a living.”
