Unnamed Sawmill Owners and Workers

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2631
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Unnamed Sawmill Owners and Workers
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Unnamed Sawmill Owners and Workers
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Yes
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In The Hamlet these "people" are obliquely evoked when the narrator says that the "mounds of rotting sawdust" marking the sites of the sawmills that once turned all the trees around Frenchman's Bend into lumber are the "monuments of a people's heedless greed" (190).