Date: 1868
Then she gave a detailed feminine account of all she had gone through.  How she had had some dif ficulty in getting up-stairs ; how the overlooker had barely glanced at her when she presented herself, and, beckoning to her to follow, had walked up the long room to where a machine was standing idle, and said, " this is your machine ."  Then to the workwoman at the next table, "Miss Matching, show Miss Vickers how to begin her work."