CARROLL D. WRIGHT.

Washington, May, 1898.

CONTENTS.


CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction [iii]
I. Lowell Sixty Years Ago [1]
II. Child-Life in the Lowell Cotton Mills [25]
III. The Little Mill-Girl’s Alma Mater [40]
IV. The Characteristics of the Early FactoryGirls [60]
V. Characteristics (Continued) [83]
VI. The Lowell Offering and its Writers [97]
VII. The Lowell Offering (Continued) [109]
VIII. Brief Biographies of some of the Writersfor The Lowell Offering [132]
IX. The Cotton Factory of To-day [202]

LOOM AND SPINDLE.


CHAPTER I.
LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO.

“That wonderful city of spindles and looms,

And thousands of factory folk.”