People told me, they still tell me, I should be able to go to school but not my mother nor my father went to school and although my father died very young, my mother was as good as could be expected of her. I cannot go to school. 

I would like child labour to continue because if there was no child labour then we would be starving and penniless. But the punishments are too harsh. Conditions for children should improve in the factories, but I am so grateful for the money, even though it is not very much. 

It is all very well to say children should go to school. But school does not pay money. It takes money from you. I think that work in factories should continue. But more care should be taken. About the welfare of children. That is all I have to say. I do not know what I want. I have never known any difference. But we are children. Not slaves.