Annie made a few pennies every week by doing odd jobs at the Fair, fetching and carrying, plucking chicken or gutting fish for the market vendors, fanning their charcoal fires, driving away flies round meats. Some paid in kind, scraps of left overs, bread, fish, a chicken leg, an old rag which somehow she fashioned into something for the mites to wear. So, there were always a few scraps for them and herself. They had found refuge in a disused barn until one morning they was discovered and chased away. She had begged for food, stolen a loaf and an apple when the opportunity arose. They were always hungry and cold, and Michael Michael’s nose always dripping with yellow stuff, but the three of them had survived.
Image credit: I believe this image is Public Domain, Céle Daubray (“Cosette”, Les Miserables), 1877. Photographer: Etienne Carjat
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Book 1
Chapter 4
(Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1828)
Annie began earning a few pennies doing odd jobs for the people at the Fair and begging when there was no work. She was not averse to a little thieving when ...
Book 2
Book 2 Chapter 8: Transportation
(Hunter's Hill, Australia, 1834)
Hunter's Hill is the peninsula between rivers Lane Cove and Parramatta, which the Aborigines call it Mooroocooboola, which means the meeting of the waters.
Book 3
Book 3 Chapter 1: Illiwarra
(Hunter's Hill, Australia, 1837)
They fell in love with the place, as instantaneously as Annie had fallen for James. Here in this place they were going to live happily ever after, like in th...
Book 3 Chapter 2: Reverse Transportation
(Hunter's Hill, Australia, 1839)
After the men from Tolpuddle had been been found guilty, workers all over the country began to fearlessly proclaim that it was a blatant miscarriage of justi...