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Take this book into your hands. Take these children into your heart. When their mother dies, eight children are scattered across coal country. Children went to work. They did hard jobs, worked long hours, for less pay, and lost not only limbs but lives in the machinery of the industrial age. It was a time before child labor laws or workplace safety rules existed. They trudged on and found happiness in life's little pleasures like picnics and ice cream.
Sometimes witty, sometimes cynical, these stories were inspired by people with whom the author came into contact, events of which he became aware and influences which he came under as a boy. They convey the anxieties of the 1930s and '40s and the insecurities of the mining communities. Often raw and earthy, they paint a picture of a society peopled mainly by migrants from the older coalfields, thrown together by economic and social forces and not yet secure in their new identities. The author's awareness of British social history helps to place the stories within the context of what was happening in the world beyond the slag heap.