The Edge of the Crowd. Ross Gilfillan

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      ‘With nourishment and warmth Mo recovered quite quickly. The Marshalsea came to mean food and company and we were regular visitors, well known among the prisoners. The prison was also the source of a scanty income. I earned first one penny and then another running errands for the prisoners. Some of the turnkeys took small bribes and others liked me well enough to turn a blind eye when I slipped out to the cookshop for pies and plum-dough or to the taproom for a quartern of gin, or ran with messages to attorneys and creditors. I began to feel at home in prison and so we came to be oftener inside than out. I believe we might have grown up there had not fate taken a hand. My father, whose health had been frail ever since he had once taken a severe chill in his damp room, now became ill and within a few weeks had got worse and finally died.

      ‘I was fourteen years old and still without proper employment. I could no longer go to the prison and make my living running errands. Instead I had to cast about for other employ. For a while I returned to stealing potatoes and cabbages, but they were wise to us now and those boys still working the Market were being taken up daily. That first summer, Mo and I walked to Kent with the hoppers. That was well for as long as it lasted but when the season was over we were back in London, facing a winter on the streets. Little Mo was rising eleven when we saved a few bob and I bought her a tray of things to sell in the street – laces and ribbons and buttons mainly. We found her a pitch on the Strand and she might come home after standing there all day with only five or six pence to show for it.

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