The book The Hungry Forties, Life Under the Bread Tax; was written by author Cobden Unwin, Mrs. (Jane) Here you can read free online of The Hungry Forties, Life Under the Bread Tax; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Hungry Forties, Life Under the Bread Tax; a good or bad book?
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a stone ; and I worked from four till eight." Another had seen the children *' run like pigs after an apple-core in the streets." " In the old days," says one lady, "of dear food, the women and girls had to turn out into the fields and work laboriously to make up the in- sufficiency in their family income. Really the poor people were half starved ; they never \knew what it was not to be hungry.'' Mr. peorge Crowfoot, of Ashill, told the inter- viewer the following anecdote : " I remember on one... occasion I had no bread to take with me to work, and when the other men sat down to eat what they had got for dinner, I found I had a little tobacco dust in my pipe. A DINNER OF SMOKE 125 I looked about to see if master was near, and thought all was right ; so I lit my pipe to try and drive the hungry feeling away. Before a minute was up a shout came over the hedge, * Who's that smoking ? ' We all denied smoking, because they would not permit it on the farms. I owned up afterwards, and had to suffer for it He gave me three days' holiday.
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