Excerpt from The Little Museum Keepers Amongst the older hands who passed down the cindery road from the great gates of one of the largest of the mills, was a decent middle-aged man. He was unusually sickly-looking even for a mill-hand, and his slow step was fast leaving him behind the rest, when he was addressed by a respectable old woman who had approached from an opposite direction. She called him by the name of John Fulwood, and asked after his health He replied in a low voice: I am passing away, neighbour, and without regret, except as regards my little lad Joe, and some relations I have in Derbyshire. At this the old woman shook her head, and, not unmoved, remarked, That he should not have married so slatternly and idle a woman as the widow he took for his second wife; for when he brought her home he had, as all his neighbours knew, a house full of good furniture, a cupboard full of food, and a good deposit in the savings bank. Now, things were very different. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.