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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Stem finning. Wassahj, Wassaic Hocse, August 22, 1853. Thanks to the attractions and hospitalities of the Wassaic House that I was not in that salamander safe, New York, to be parboiled and suffocated by the unusual and terrific heat which visited the city last week. The number of deaths from coup de soliel was truly lamentable. The poor laborers ? the bone and sinew of the community ? whose days and hours are not all their own, who seldom, if ever, inhale a breath of untainted air; but toil, with hod on shoulder filled with brick and mortar, for a scanty sustenance ? climbing the ladder to the topmost story of buildings for the rich who know no want ? exposed to rays of heat that are so soon to consume the poor man's life, leaving dependent his already ill clad and fed family in despair. What a picture Could not the rich builder give AN AMUSING INCIDENT. 37 the employee a few hours' recess in the middle of the day in extreme hot weather without curtailing his wages, which he can not afford to dispense with ? That would be humane and charitable, and save many lives and much misery, and make the employer happier if not richer for the good he had done. The only exciting event we have had this week was on the occasion of the nervous lady declaring, in a fit of dyspepsia, that she must have a drive. The gallant Mr. P., of Philadelphia, who, by the way, is a great favorite, being over-civil and complimentary to the ladies, immediately proclaimed if there was a vehicle to be had, it would give him great pleasure to accompany her; to which she smiled, simpered and bowed her thanks. Mr. P. repaired to Mr. Atkins, but returned in a few minutes, with feigned disappointment depicted in every feature, saying that every mode of conveyance was out, and that they would be un...
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