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The Nine-Tenths

The Nine-Tenths

Oppenheim, James
1stworld Library

Hardcover

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1421800586
ISBN13: 9781421800585
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Feb 8 2006
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
That windy autumn noon the young girls of the hat factory darted out of the loft building and came running back with cans of coffee, and bags of candy, and packages of sandwiches and cakes. They frisked hilariously before the wind, with flying hair and sparkling eyes, and crowded into the narrow entrance with the grimy pressmen of the eighth floor. Over and over again the one frail elevator was jammed with the laughing crowd and shot up to the hat factory on the ninth floor and back. The men smoked cigarettes as the girls chattered and flirted with them, and the talk was fast and free. At the eighth floor the pressmen got off, still smoking, for Mr. Joe was still out. Even after the presses started up they went on surreptitiously, though near one group of them in a dark corner of the printery lay a careless heap of cotton waste, thoroughly soaked with machine-oil. This heap had been passed by the factory inspector unnoticed, the pressmen took it for granted, and Joe, in his slipshod manner, gave it no thought.

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