Lyddie is the story of a farm girl whose family falls apart. When her parents are gone, the children are unable to make ends meet. Lyddie goes to the city of Lowell to become a factory girl. Lyddie is a work of historical fiction.
In chapter two, Lyddie and Charlie complete the necessary household chores for leaving the cabin and prepare to go on to their new lives. They had found out that they had been sold as indentured servants to a tavern and a mill, and their property was to be let to help pay off the remainder of the debt. They gather the animals together and stop at the Stevens' farm in hopes of selling the calf, which they decide really is theirs, not their mother's. Farmer Stevens buys the calf and invites them to supper, then his son, Luke, drives them in his wagon to drop off the remaining animals. They drop Charlie off at the mill, but Lyddie doesn't want Luke to drive her all the way to the tavern because she thinks it might not look right. At the end of the chapter, she has just arrived and is preparing to go in.
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