Lilias Rider Haggard
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“The Children was sent out at an early age into the fields to work, scaren crows and such like Jobs. I can well rember wen lots of poor Children had to go to work in the Spring of the year, picken foule grass, and other Jobs, from eight in the morning till five in the afternoon, some with scarse any boots on there feet. The Master would send a man to keep them at work, and he would stand in the field with a stick or whip to keep them at it. Wen they had done the day’s work they would get the sum of three Pence.”
― I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
― I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
“I have heard many People say, give me the good old days of fifty year ago, but beleve me there were no good old days fifty years ago, except for the man with plenty of gold. The worken classes were little better than slaves, they were worked from there Cradles to there Graves—people think that times are bad now, but they were many times worse then. Men had to tramp to work hours sooner than to day, and they got a mere pittance, nine shilling a week to bring up a family.”
― I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
― I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
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