The Scheme
The scheme for sending unwanted orphans to farm communities was at its height. Often they were little more than child slaves. Sometimes kids were farmed out to very remote and isolated farmsteads where they were both prisoners and slaves, and their adopters could pretty much treat them as they liked. You could get used to anything in the end I suppose, if you had no choice.... Chapter One - Lemonade and Lace If Miss Grace said, "Go wait with Missy in the kitchen for a while,"...