FOUR
In a dank dark cellar with the rats and the bats and other troll-like things.
Sleeping arrangements for all the children was a problem, not just for Mary, but for most of the families in the village—the problem the same, too many children in too few rooms. When they had all been small, it had been less of a headache, they could all sleep in two beds, topped and tailed, but even though Joe and Daniel were married and left home, with kids of their own, Mary still worried about how to fit the rest in two small upstairs rooms. There was hardly room to swing a cat around, let alone house eight children, especially since Harold and Edgar and the girls, Mary Margaret and Margaret Mary were all full grown, and even Eleanor at 16, coming on 17, was now a young woman in full bloom.
Mary solv
