A. “I think it is self-evident.”
Q. “Is there any possibility of their obtaining education under those circumstances?”
A. “None whatever, except on Sundays.”
Q. “But, after one hundred and twenty hours’ work in the week, is it possible that they can have much capacity for study on Sunday?”
A. “It is not always that the same children are kept twenty hours, because some mills have two complete sets of hands for their machinery, and they work the same set of hands only ten hours.”
Q. “But, even under those circumstances, it must frequently happen that the same children are employed during the night twice or thrice in the course of a week?”
A. “The practice generally is that they take the night-work for one week, and then the next week the morning-work.”
Q. “So that during one whole week they are employed in the night-work?”
A. “Yes.”