Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman

Language: en

Life in the Iron Hell"In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run. Korl we call it here: a light, porous substance, of a delicate, waxen, flesh-colored tinge. Out of the blocks of this korl, Wolfe, in his off-hours from the furnace, had a habit of chipping and moulding figures,—hideous, fantastic enough, but sometimes strangely beautiful: even the mill-men saw that, while they jeered at him. It was a curious fancy in the man, almost a passion." - Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron MillsLife in the Iron Mills is one…