Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . Figure 3.—Breakfast Cap HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, No. CXXIV-SEPTEMBER, hee thin mechanical hands she dropped, AND gazed at the WALL 80 BABE AND BALD. ACHIMNEYS shadow, flung by the sunAs it sank in the west when the day was done,Silent and dark as the noiseless batCrept through the room where the work-girl sat; Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Harper and Brothere, in the Clerks Office of the DL-trict Court for the Southern District of New XXI.—No. 124.—Ee HARPERS NEW MONTHLY


Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . Figure 3.—Breakfast Cap HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, No. CXXIV-SEPTEMBER, hee thin mechanical hands she dropped, AND gazed at the WALL 80 BABE AND BALD. ACHIMNEYS shadow, flung by the sunAs it sank in the west when the day was done,Silent and dark as the noiseless batCrept through the room where the work-girl sat; Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Harper and Brothere, in the Clerks Office of the DL-trict Court for the Southern District of New XXI.—No. 124.—Ee HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Where she sat all day at her poor pine table, Working, so long as her hands were able, On shirt and collar and chemisette. On gowns of silk and on vails of net, Till her busy thin fingers seemed to be A skeleton kind of machinery. The table was strewn with threads of silk, With pearly buttons that shone like milk. With gaudy stuffs of a thousand dyes. And beads that gleamed in the gloom like eyes; While in the midst of these beautiful things Glimmered a Sewing Birds silver wings. But the blankets that lay on her bed were poor, And cra


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