The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth

They are invisible fosterers in the sense that neither is named within the text. Each speaks an underword - italicised to indicate its fragmentary, translated nature - …

For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.

an urnless cremation