Hard Times
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You are Sissy Jupe, listed as Girl Number Twenty in Mr Gradgrind's fact-only schoolroom, unable to define a horse to his satisfaction while Louisa Gradgrind watches in silence. After class Louisa asks to see the circus, and at the lodging you find your father gone, his act and his dog missing too. Gradgrind offers you a home if you give up the circus entirely, and only a bottle of horse liniment is left in your hand to decide with.
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- A Girl Who Cannot Define a HorseCoketown Schoolroom