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Excerpt from St. Nicholas, Vol. 7: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys; Part I., November, 1879 to May, 1880
AT William Hackett's dingy, cramped quarters in London, there were three very busy people. These were Mrs. Hackett, Miss Hackett, and Master Hackett. They were working upstairs in an attic room, sitting about a table on which there were dolls, doll-heads, doll-bodies: All about the room were boxes of dolls, undressed, except for those inevitable little paper-cambric slips which seem to embody the only inalienable right that dolls have in this world. There were red-haired dolls, black-haired dolls, golden-haired dolls, 'no haired dolls, - every description of the genus, per haps, except the china doll.
Were the Hacketts - Mrs., Miss and Master dressing dolls to help out belated Santa Claus? No. Were they making dolls? Again, no. They were unmaking the creatures. It would have made any little girl's blood run cold to stand by and witness the slaughter.
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