Question: At what age were you when you entered upon night work in the steaming department?

Answer: I was nearly fourteen.

Question: Will you state to this committee the labour which you endured when you were put upon long hours.

Answer: We started at one o'clock on Monday morning, and then we went on again till eight o'clock, at breakfast time; then we had half an hour; and then we went on till twelve o'clock, and had half an hour for drinking; and then we stopped at half past eleven for refreshment for an hour and a half at midnight; and then we went on again till breakfast time, when we had half an hour; and then we went on again till twelve o'clock, at dinner time, and then we had an hour: and then we stopped at five o'clock again on Tuesday afternoon for half an hour for drinking; then we went on till past eleven, and then we gave over till five o'clock on Wednesday morning.

Question: Did you go home then?

Answer: No, we slept in the mill.

Question: How did you sleep in the mill?

Answer: We took all our clothes off, except our shirts, and got into the warmest part of the mill, and amongst the driest cloth we could.

Question: Did you take your meals standing?

Answer: Yes, we put our baskets on the boxes.

Question: Were you perfect in your limbs when you undertook that long and excessive labour?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What effect did it have on your limbs?

Answer: It made me very crooked in my knees.

Question: If you refused to work long hours, and wished to have worked a moderate length of time only, should you have been retained in your situation?

Answer: I should have had to go home. I should have been turned off directly.

Question: Have you received any information as to what will be the consequences of your having given evidence.

Answer: My overlooker told my brother that if I came to London I should never have any employment any more, nor my brother neither. My brother said he could not help it; but I expect that the first time he does a job which does not please that he will turn him away; because, if you work in a family, and one does wrong, the whole family must go.