In the winter I worked by candle-light for two hours before breakfast.

We went to work at five--I did this when I was six years old--and worked until seven, when we had half an hour for breakfast.

As I lived farther from the mill than most of the children who were enslaved there, my breakfast-time was very short.

At half past seven we began again and worked until noon, when we had an hour for dinner.

At one o'clock we took up work once more and quit at half past five for supper.