Download or read book Life In The Iron-Mills written by Rebecca Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in th