“Tommy knew he was fortunate to be going to school with the Fairlie boys. If he forgot, his father could remind him that lads his age worked hand looms from sunup till dark and thanked the Lord for the work. Other boys sweated through twelve-hour shifts in smoky factories. One government report found a young nail-maker paying a high price for doing shoddy work: ‘Somebody in the warehouse took him and put his head down on an iron counter and hammered a nail through his ear, and the boy has made good nails every since.’”
Kevin Cook, Tommy’s Honor (2007).
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