No one wants to turn kids into household drudges.

Yet another treaty guaranteed the resident ambassador, ceded Kowloon - a bit of the mainland opposite Hong Kong island - to Britain, and compelled China to let Chinese coolies migrate on British ships.

She's the family drudge, poor little soul - a Cinderella without a fairy godmother.

They dug trenches, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories for the allies.

He was an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie, almost naked, and he could not have been dead many minutes.