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"And what have you had to eat?"

"Bread Lots o' things I fun' in the fields Rabbud"

"Who's that boy?" said a sharp voice that well knew; and Shock's head

disappeared

"Mr Ezra Brownsmith's boy, Sir Francis," I said "He used to ith

me"

"Was he from the workhouse?"

"Yes, Sir Francis"

"Tell hie him I don't

approve of it Go on with your work"

I took the barrow handles and wheeled it away, biting my lips, for it

had suddenly struckto a

boy as my companion in the workhouse, and it seehtly that I should not be able to

get it removed

Plenty of little annoyances occurred, but I put up with them; and not

the least was the appearance of Shock at the top of first one wall and

then another, but never near enough to speak to me

He showed hiarden feeling sure that he atching rown arden,

for one day I caught sight of hiooseberry bushes

I started in pursuit, but stopped directly, feeling sure that if I did

so the act would result in trouble to us both, and deterlad I did so the next arden to a them