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THE

CHRISTIAN LADY'S MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1840.

HELEN FLEETWOOD.

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THE persons with whom our agent had principally had to do, in reference to the youthful candidates for mill-labour, were too generally reducible under two heads-those who knew little or nothing of the legalized regulations, and those who were well disposed to evade them. To the latter class the widow Green evidently did not belong to the former she probably did. In fact, the good woman was totally ignorant on the subject, and had it not been for the warning communicated by Helen, she would have come altogether unprepared. Vague, however, as that warning was, it induced her to put into her pocket-book certificates of the children's baptism and age, furnished by Mr. Barlow, and with the imparted wisdom which is not only pure but peaceable, she placed

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