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| | XI. The Sweaters of Jewtown. Riis, Jacob A. 1890. How the Other Half Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Five men and a woman, two young girls, not fifteen, and a boy who says unasked that he is fifteen, and lies in saying it, are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, kneepants in the Ludlow Street dialect. |
 | | Such as he, with their consuming desire for money thus smothered, recruit the ranks of the anarchists, won over by the promise of a general divide; and an enlightened public sentiment turns up its nose at the vicious foreigner for whose perverted notions there is no room in this land of plenty. |
 | | I know of a couple of restaurants at the lower end of Orchard Street that are favorite resorts for the Polish Jews, who remember the injunction that the ox that treadeth out the corn shall not be muzzled. |
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