Sixpenny Stalls by Beryl Kingston

Author:Beryl Kingston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

That afternoon Will wrote the first of his dispatches, describing the hovel and the rotting potatoes and the warehouses full of corn that the starving couldn’t buy. He wrote with such passion and speed that he made his fingers sore.

‘We talk of the power of England,’ he concluded, ‘her navy, her gold, her resources – Oh yes, and her enlightened statesmen – while the broad fact is that she cannot keep her children perishing by hunger. Something must be done!’

The next day he and Tom set off on their travels, journeying south. He would see this starving country for himself and report upon it as fully and accurately as he could. It was his job. At last.

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