I couldn't bite him, for he had stuffed some of his rags in my mouth.

He took me to a tenement house, in a part of the city that I had never been in before.
He belonged to a very poor family.

My faith, weren't they badly off--six children, and a mother and father, all living in two tiny rooms.
Scarcely a bit of meat did I smell while I was there.

I hated their bread and molasses, and the place smelled so badly that I thought I should choke.
"They kept me shut up in their dirty rooms for several days; and the brat of a boy that caught me slept with his arm around me at night.

The weather was hot and sometimes we couldn't sleep, and they had to go up on the roof.