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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯：节俭·摘录 452
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"In addition to the carpet making," she says in the Manuscript Memoir of her life, "we carried on the manufacture of shalloons and plainbacks, the whole of which I managed myself, so far as putting out the warps and weft, and taking in from the weavers. We had at one time as many as a hundred and sixty hand weavers on these goods. We sold the principal part of them in London. We had also about four looms making brace webs and body belts. The produce of these looms I sold principally to the Irish, who made them up into braces and hawked them about the country. I also made and stitched, with assistance, all the carpets that we sold retail. I used to get up to work by four o'clock in the morning, and being very diligent, I have usually earned two shillings before breakfast, by the time that my neighbours were coming downstairs."
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定位：Excerpt 452 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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这位妻子在自传手稿里说：除了地毯，他们还做粗呢和素色布，从发经线、纬线到从织工手里收货，全由她管，最多时有一百六十个手织工。货主要卖到伦敦。另外还有四台织机做背带和腰带，产品主要卖给爱尔兰人，他们加工成背带后走街串巷去卖。店里零售的地毯，也是她带着人做和缝的。她每天凌晨四点起床干活，因为勤快，往往早饭前就挣了两先令——那时邻居们才刚下楼。
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玛莎·克罗斯利回忆自己管理家族纺织生意、起早贪黑的经历，出自斯迈尔斯《节俭》。
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