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19.9.31
On the last morning, when we had picked the last field, there was a queer game of catching the women and putting them in the bins. Very likely there will be something about this in the Golden Bough. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, beer, bins, buses, Deafie, farm, fruit-picking, Ginger, Golden Bough, Hammersmith, hop-fields, hop-picking, hoppickers' train, hops, illiteracy, Kent, London Bridge, money, payment, pub, scholars, sex, tally book, tobacco, tobacconist, train, tramps, Wateringbury
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1.9.31
…went off to work, and Ginger and I went down to Chambers’ farm, a mile or two away, to ask for work. When we got to the farm they had been hanging a cat, a thing I never heard of … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, bailiff, bathroom, blankets, Blest, bread, butter, cat, chamberpots, Chambers, cheese, Cockney accent, cocoa, cold water, damsons, dinner, farm, food, Ginger, homosexuality, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, jam, job, lorry, Maidstone, matches, money, palliasses, picnickers, raspberries, smell, spike, tea, towel, Tramp Major, tramps, West Malling, work, workhouse
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30.8.31
Next morning the clergyman coming to early service caught us and turned us out, though not very disagreeably. We went on through Sevenoaks to Seal, and a man we met advised us to try for a job at Mitchell’s farm, … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, apples, candles, church, clergyman, early service, evening service, farm, food, Ginger, Government inspectors, grocer, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, hot water, Irishwoman, job, Kronk, lychgate, Maidstone, Mitchell, potatoes, raspberries, Seal, Sevenoaks, sugar, tea, theft, tobacco
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28.8.31
The next day in the afternoon four of us started out for the hop-fields. The most interesting of the men with me was a youth named Ginger, who is still my mate when I write this. He is a strong, … Continue reading
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Tagged Borstal, bread, Bromley, drums, Ginger, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, Little Grey Home in the West, Liverpool Jew, louse, margarine, prison, tea, Trafalgar Square, Woolworth's, Young Ginger
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