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andrewjshields.blogspot.comCounting to high numbers and reciting poems to suppress evil thoughts in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)In Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854), when mill-worker Stephen Blackpool disappears, his friend and fellow mill-worker Rachael tells her...