There is an old saying, that "When we are with the Romans, we must do as the Romans do." And now, kind friend, as we are about to renew our walk, I beg that you will give heed to it, and do as factory girls do. After this preliminary, we will proceed to the factory.
There is the "counting-room," a long, low, brick building, and opposite is the "store-house," built of the same material, after the same model. Between them, swings the ponderous gate that shuts the mills in from the world without. But, stop; we must get "a pass" ere we go though, or "the watchman will be after us." Having obtained this, we will stop on the slight elevation by the gate, and view the mills. The one to the left rears high its huge sides of brick and mortar, and the belfry, towering far above the rest, stands out in bold relief against the rosy sky. The almost innumerable windows glitter, like gems, in the morning sunlight. It is six and a half stories high, and, like the fabled monster of old, who guarded the sacred waters of Mars, it seems to guard its less aspiring sister to the right; that is five and a half stories high, and to it is attached the repair-shop. If you please, we will pass to the larger factory,—but be careful, or you will get lost in the mud, for this yard is not laid out in such beautiful order, as some of the factory yards are, nor can it be.
14. The writer addresses the readers as if the readers were:
(a) in an office with the bosses.
(b) in a pastoral setting.
(c) in another city.
(d) smoking cigars in a game room.
(e) present at the factory.
16. On the whole, by rhetorical figures, the writer implies that the "factory girls" resemble:
(a) nuns.
(b) prison inmates.
(c) guards.
(d) farmers.
(e) street cleaners.
(Please answer both 14 and 16 for brainliest)