“But you could not live there.”
“No, I only hid myself when I could, behind the boxes, and warmed me when the men were not about the furnaces.”
“And where did you get your food?”
“I went without when I could not beg any thing to eat.”
“Have you any parents?”
“No, they both died in the Almshouse, and I was put there with them for a time, but I got away.”
“And why did you run away? you were clothed, warmed, and fed there, as well as properly employed, no doubt.”
“I did not like it though: I did not like to learn: I did not like any body there. Before mother died she used to scold and beat me; and after that I did not care to mind any body; I don’t want to work there.”
“And will you work any where if you can get employment?”