_How my Aunt and Uncle Entertained the Spinners_ 179 CHAPTER XIV _Bad Deeds in a Union for Good Works_ 191 CHAPTER XV _The College Graduate Scrubber Refreshes my Ambitions_ 205 CHAPTER XVI _How the Superintendent Shut Us Out from Eden_ 223 CHAPTER XVII _I Founded the Priddy Historical Club_ 233 CHAPTER XVIII _A Venture into Art_ 243 CHAPTER XIX _A Reduction in Wages, Cart-tail Oratory, a Big Strike, and the Joys and Sufferings Thereof_ 255 CHAPTER XX _My Steam Cooker goes wrong, I go to Newport for Enlistment on a Training-ship_ 265 CHAPTER XXI _The Ichabod of Mule-rooms, some Drastic Musing, College at my Finger-tips, the Mill People wait to let me pass and I Am Waved into the World by a Blind Woman_ 273 _Illustrations_ THEN THE EPILEPTIC OCTOGENARIAN LET ME GO AND THE PAUPER LINE WENT IN BEFORE THE PARISH CLERK FOR THE CHARITY SHILLING _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE WHEN THE TRAIN STARTED FOR LIVERPOOL, I COUNTED MY PENNIES WHILE MY AUNT WEPT BITTERLY 52 PAT AND TIM LED ME TO THE CHARLES STREET DUMPING GROUND--WHICH WAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD GEHENNA 78 I WAS GIVEN A BROOM, AND THEN I FOUND MYSELF ALONE WITH MARY 122 “PETER-ONE-LEG-AND-A-HALF” LED US AT NIGHT OVER HIGH BOARD FENCES 146 THE SPINNERS WOULD NOT STOP THEIR MULES WHILE I CLEANED THE WHEELS 170 HE PLUCKED THE VENERABLE BEARD OF A SOMNOLENT HEBREW 196 THE GANG BEGAN TO HOLD “SURPRISE PARTIES” FOR THE GIRLS IN THE MILL 246 THROUGH THE MILL _Chapter I. A Mixture of Fish, Wrangles, and Beer_ THROUGH THE MILL [Illustration] _Chapter I. A Mixture of Fish, Wrangles, and Beer_ My tenth birthday was celebrated in northern England, almost within hailing distance of the Irish Sea. Chaddy Ashworth, the green-grocer’s son, helped me eat the birthday cake, with the ten burnt currants on its buttered top.