Black Dog Gang

With our bags full of rats, the five of us began walking towards the line. We''d gone only a few yards when a voice sounded off to our left.
''What ''ave we ''ere, then?'' it said.
We turned our heads and say Bluey Lonnegan lifting himself up off a sandstone wall.
''You''re lookin'' at the Black Dog Gang,'' said Mickey.
''No doubt ya heard a us?''
 
The gang was Mickey''s idea. We''d heard the rumours – rats were coming in off the ships and spreading disease. Then the government started offering tuppence a rat, so we decided to get stuck in. But we hadn''t counted on someone getting sick. Or on Mickey''s dad finding his rats chaining Mickey up. And what happened next . . . well, it would change things forever . . .