No. 181.- George Wilcox,    aged 11

I have been to work three or four years; first picked stilts, then run moulds, then brush ware in the warehouse. I am not able to read or write. 

Father works in the sagger-house; he is in regular work six days in the week; he gets 18s. a week, or rather more; I earn 2s. 6d. a week always. 

Mother looks after house. I have three brothers and sisters; they are younger than me; they go to school week days and Sundays; I don't know if they can read. I come to work at six and go home at six. 

I get milk-meat for breakfast, and bacon and tatees sometimes for dinner; sometimes only tatees. I go to Sunday school, and learn spelling and the Catechism. 

No. 182: Josiah Mostyn,   aged 11

I turn jigger for William Wilcox; used to run moulds. 

Come to work at six, and leave at eight or half past. William Wilcox does not always come Mondays; I stop at home then. 

I cannot read; I cannot write. I went to day school when I was little; I go to Sunday school now, at the National. I get 2s. a week, and am always in regular work.

These premises are small ; rooms small and close, dirty, ill ventilated ; a stagnant pond in the middle of yard.