Issue No. 8 (October 1841) of the Lowell Offering, a magazine of prose and verse written by women mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts. It includes a sugar-making excursion sketch, a story about mill-girl roommates on the evening before pay-day, essays on shade trees for schoolhouses, friendship, and home, a dedication poem for the high-school house, and a song with music. The issue ends with an engraving of the Second Universalist Church in Lowell.