. History of lace . Regency Point.—(Bedford.) and Mr. Pridmore, the Spratton schoolmaster, with his some-what strict discipline, were well known, not only to thechildren of Spratton, Imt to the boys and girls of most of Insertion.—(Bedford.) the adjacent villages. But the lace school was, no doubt, acommercial institution, and I think it will be admitted that the hours were long and the work severe. The girls left the 390 HISTORY OF LACE day school at the age of eight years, and joined the laceschool, and here the hours were from 6 to 6 in thesummer, and from 8 to 8 in
. History of lace . Regency Point.—(Bedford.) and Mr. Pridmore, the Spratton schoolmaster, with his some-what strict discipline, were well known, not only to thechildren of Spratton, Imt to the boys and girls of most of Insertion.—(Bedford.) the adjacent villages. But the lace school was, no doubt, acommercial institution, and I think it will be admitted that the hours were long and the work severe. The girls left the 390 HISTORY OF LACE day school at the age of eight years, and joined the laceschool, and here the hours were from 6 to 6 in thesummer, and from 8 to 8 in the winter. Half was allowed for breakfast and for tea, and one hour fordinner, so that there were ten hours for actual work. Thegirls had to stick ten pins a minute, or six hundred an hour;.and if at the end of the day they were five pins behind, theyhad to work for another hour. On Saturdays, however,,they had a half-holiday, working only to the counted to themselves every pin they stuck, and atevery fiftieth pin they called out the time, and the girls usedto race each other as to who should call out first. They paid twopence a w^eek (or threepence in winter)for lights, and in return they
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