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THE PERIODICALS.Michael Armstrong; or,The Factory Boy. Ru Mrs. Trollope. Part \. Colburn.This highly interesting and graphic work is, we reffret to hoar, about to be prematurely brought to a close Whether it is the work does not answerthe expectations of the publisher, or whether theexposures contained in it of the cotton lords is distasteful in certain quarters, we have no means of ascertaining. We give an extract. Michael Armstrong, the hero, who has been taken away from his mother and apprenticed in a mill several miles from his home, where he has been kept a close prisoner for years, finds, at last, the means of escape, and at once proceeds home to Ashleigh, his mother's former residence;—but we anticipate.The Escape and Attempt at Suicide.Safely ensconced in a sort of rude drain, which he had himself assisted to construct, when lie held the regretted office of scavenger of the court, and over the aperture of whisk he easily arranged sticks and rubbish sufficient to conceal him, Michael lay for many hours listening to the hubbub which his absence occasioned. He distinctly heard the expression of Mrs. Poulet s
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Charter
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Dec 15, 1839
Page 43
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