Comment by nephihaha
I doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then...
I doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then...
Depressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful.
In the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with.
I can't say either way, having never met her.
I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later.
My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.