We crept into Mrs Frobisher's office and sitting there on a table was the most beautiful watch I'd ever seen!
It was made of pure gold and instead of numbers it had dates! Next to the dates was a mirror and inside were reflected the most wonderful things: Mr. Bells telephone, smaller and more efficient! The motor cars , dozens of them all different colors! And a box containing moving pictures!!! I gazed upon the majesty and wonder of the future and uttered the 4 words that would change our lives forever: "Take us with you!"
"who?" asked Sam.
"Me and Penny of course!" Sam looked shocked!
"But you mightent like it!"
"We can always go back!"
"Please, Sam Please, Take us with you!"
Monday 30 May 2011
Monday 16 May 2011
The plan
There was a new kid at the workhouse ,ex-pickpocket, thin tall ,light fingered and a habit of flattering mrs Frobbisher in a way that isgusts me! When Sam saw him she got extremly excited. She whispered
"Hatty he's the one who stole my watch!"
We suspected that he cant still have it as he has nothing in his pockets (we checked whilst he was bathing!)
So it must be in Mrs Frobbishers office.
We plan to sneak in at the dea of night!!!!!!!!!
"Hatty he's the one who stole my watch!"
We suspected that he cant still have it as he has nothing in his pockets (we checked whilst he was bathing!)
So it must be in Mrs Frobbishers office.
We plan to sneak in at the dea of night!!!!!!!!!
Sunday 15 May 2011
Sams story
I have ventured further into Sam's friendship and tried to befriend her. She is beginning to like me and even told me a dark secret!
She told me tat the reason she talks at night is that the other children thought it would b fun to 'break her in'!
I told her to give me the details when Penny was out of earshot and she told me this story:
"You may not believe this but I am from another time, a time of cars and flying machines ,a time of science and discovery and I used to go to school there! At school I was doing history of the Victorian times and I wanted to get good marks when we did our tests so I wanted to find out more ,but where?
Luckily my uncle was an inventor, years before I was born he invented all sorts of inventions, but people just said he was mad!
He gave me a watch and told me that if I turned it back I could go back in time! I turned th clock back and here I was. In the work house they took my watch aand put me i this room! With these bullies who madde mee talk at night and then punishe ,me!
So everyone was in on it ,but me....
She told me tat the reason she talks at night is that the other children thought it would b fun to 'break her in'!
I told her to give me the details when Penny was out of earshot and she told me this story:
"You may not believe this but I am from another time, a time of cars and flying machines ,a time of science and discovery and I used to go to school there! At school I was doing history of the Victorian times and I wanted to get good marks when we did our tests so I wanted to find out more ,but where?
Luckily my uncle was an inventor, years before I was born he invented all sorts of inventions, but people just said he was mad!
He gave me a watch and told me that if I turned it back I could go back in time! I turned th clock back and here I was. In the work house they took my watch aand put me i this room! With these bullies who madde mee talk at night and then punishe ,me!
So everyone was in on it ,but me....
Tuesday 10 May 2011
SADNESS
Sam is really upset, I don't think she realised that we'd actually turn on her and in such a ritualistic way!
She doesn't talk at night she just weeps. We held a nmeeting in wich we decided that I should befriend her and help her back into or comunity. A fall out afects everyone here!
She doesn't talk at night she just weeps. We held a nmeeting in wich we decided that I should befriend her and help her back into or comunity. A fall out afects everyone here!
Friday 6 May 2011
Rights
Today Sam suffers rights!
She lost us our dinners for the last time. If we had snitched on her she would have been caned, we can't cane her but we can preform rights! I tried to warn her even telling her about, rights, but she didn't believe me she soon she will though.
The night nurse falls asleep the children stop playing and form a circle even the youngest children step nervously, having had right s before. Sam walks in. We only use rights for snitches and what the children here consider bad. If some one for example, tore up one of Mrs Frobbishers best dresses they wouldn't own up as no-one knows what happens to the people who do. One boy did, but never tells us what happened. All he says is that its worse than the cane worse even than rights, but thats diffrent, thats rebbelion the person doing it is treated like a hero!
But stuff like talking at night is not rebellion. Rebbelion makes us feel proud it makes us see going with out food as a meagre price to pay. Therefore rebels are encoraged brothers and sisters tell thier younger siblings tales of rebels. Bad people arre given rights.
Sam hasn't had all this infomation but I had told her the procedure. She knows whats coming she walks bravely into the circle.
We around her in one voice cout slowly.
"One, two ,three!"
All of a sudden we leap into the circle and onto Sam. Ripping at her hair hitting, kicking any where exept her face then the sands in the hour glass Mrs Frobbisher uses to tie our work with run out. We all step back, she lies bruised on the floor. I walk out, as I am closest to her I have to do this as it is the way. I help her up in my hand is a pot full of mud thatthe people told to sweep the yard collected. In goes my hand I pull it out slimy and wet and slap her face, I slap it again,and again, and again until she is drenched in mud. We push her into the corridor, and listen until we hear footsteps, angry words and more footsteps.
For Sam is about to have her final punishment with Mrs Frobbisher...........
She lost us our dinners for the last time. If we had snitched on her she would have been caned, we can't cane her but we can preform rights! I tried to warn her even telling her about, rights, but she didn't believe me she soon she will though.
The night nurse falls asleep the children stop playing and form a circle even the youngest children step nervously, having had right s before. Sam walks in. We only use rights for snitches and what the children here consider bad. If some one for example, tore up one of Mrs Frobbishers best dresses they wouldn't own up as no-one knows what happens to the people who do. One boy did, but never tells us what happened. All he says is that its worse than the cane worse even than rights, but thats diffrent, thats rebbelion the person doing it is treated like a hero!
But stuff like talking at night is not rebellion. Rebbelion makes us feel proud it makes us see going with out food as a meagre price to pay. Therefore rebels are encoraged brothers and sisters tell thier younger siblings tales of rebels. Bad people arre given rights.
Sam hasn't had all this infomation but I had told her the procedure. She knows whats coming she walks bravely into the circle.
We around her in one voice cout slowly.
"One, two ,three!"
All of a sudden we leap into the circle and onto Sam. Ripping at her hair hitting, kicking any where exept her face then the sands in the hour glass Mrs Frobbisher uses to tie our work with run out. We all step back, she lies bruised on the floor. I walk out, as I am closest to her I have to do this as it is the way. I help her up in my hand is a pot full of mud thatthe people told to sweep the yard collected. In goes my hand I pull it out slimy and wet and slap her face, I slap it again,and again, and again until she is drenched in mud. We push her into the corridor, and listen until we hear footsteps, angry words and more footsteps.
For Sam is about to have her final punishment with Mrs Frobbisher...........
Sam is strange
When I was 10 and Penny was 2 a new girl arrived at the work house. She slept in the dormitory in the bed next to mine and Penny's. Somthing about her seemed strange, when told to scrb thhe flooor she refused, yet claimed it was inhuman to give her no supper for a week I said she could share mine. At night she grumbled, I was amazed and so were the other girls every night she would talk and every night she would refuse to tell Mrs Frobbisher and every night instead of snitching we would all go without Supper, then she apologised and acted as if she couldn't help it I dont know what to make of her!
She'll soon find out though that in the workhouse we believe in taking one for the team and if she doesn't learn that she will suffer ,rights!
She'll soon find out though that in the workhouse we believe in taking one for the team and if she doesn't learn that she will suffer ,rights!
Thursday 5 May 2011
Penny
The workhouse ma'am was called Mrs Frobbisher. Every time she said anything to us we had to reply "yes Mrs Frobbisher." I was born in the workhouse I knew my mother was here ,but I didn't know where I didn't care, I Had no love for her and from what Mrs Frobbisher said she hated me she had seen me as an inconvenience after being caught trying to abandon me several times she left me on the workhouse doorstep and a few years later turned up there herself penniless and drunk! All in all I had no proper mother ,but II am a mother to my little sister Penny when mother was found on the door step she was clutching a small baby with Penny written on a label round her neck ,they think mother was trying the abandoning trick again! The other children saw a new toy and the moment the Nurse fell asleep some small girls lifted Penny out of her cradle waking her so that she screamed! They tried to play Mothers and Fathers ,Whilst yellling at her to make her stop screaming, they eventually got bored and left her on the floor where she fell asleep...
Only to be woken by a little boy and his older brother, The boy had obviosly decided that Penny would make a great police siren as he proceded to get on all fours and drive around the floor while his brother poked Penny to make her wail! A small group of children grabbed her and began one at a time using belts to strap her thier to thier backs and held a competion to see could shake her off in the shortest time! I wasnt having that! I couldn't wake the nurse so I snatched her away from them, placing her back into her cradle and singing her to sleep whilst acting as guard incase anyone fancied havng a go at my sister Penny!
Only to be woken by a little boy and his older brother, The boy had obviosly decided that Penny would make a great police siren as he proceded to get on all fours and drive around the floor while his brother poked Penny to make her wail! A small group of children grabbed her and began one at a time using belts to strap her thier to thier backs and held a competion to see could shake her off in the shortest time! I wasnt having that! I couldn't wake the nurse so I snatched her away from them, placing her back into her cradle and singing her to sleep whilst acting as guard incase anyone fancied havng a go at my sister Penny!
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