Excerpt from The Sins of the Fathers The shrill whistle of Cole Company's foundry had screeched forth its regular Saturday after noon's respite from toil. The great wooden doors and gates had been swung open; and a throng of hurrying operatives were jostling each other in their eagerness to pass the confines Of the prison like enclosures. Though tired after their week's labor, the men laughed and chatted and bandied each other with all the jocundity of fair-day rol lickers; and despite their weariness, appeared happy and contented as they poured out of the numerous workshops into the large rectangular yard, about which the buildings were grouped, thence under the arch, past the Office window, and out into the village square. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.