The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 64
en, arenearly always constructed of solid masonry. Thecanneries are usually large low buildings, sur-rounded by a wall and often inclosing a court-yard, where the sardines are dried in fair weather. From fifty to three or four hundredpersons, mostly women and girls, are employedat good wages in… … BACK IN PORT AND DRYING THE NETS. 2oO CURIOUS TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES crowds begin to gather on the quay; and thefactories blow whistles or ring bells to summontheir women and girls, who are seen hurryingthrough the streets in their odd, picturesque cos-tume—short dark skirts, glistening white…
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