I'm like some poor farm girl, barefoot as the day I was born.
His father was a poor farm labourer, and could not afford to send him to school long enough even to learn to read and write.
After her mother was widowed a second time, Annie was placed in a county poor farm and endured mental and physical abuse.
Young lovers, Buttercup, a simple peasant girl and Wesley, a poor farm hand, separate so that Wesley may earn his fortune then return to marry his true love.