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Children working as bird scarers
In Victorian Britain some children worked in the countryside doing jobs like bird scaring. Wages were lower in the countryside but conditions were slightly better than in the towns. The painting of a bird scarer in this clip shows that they were lonely and often cold. Young children might stand alone in the fields for many hours, even in winter. They earned about five pence a day.
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