Charles Dickens and the Windamere

After he escapes from the workhouse or just kind of walks out the door because they don't really care all that much Stanley winds up living with a series of relatives for brief periods of time but none of them wanted to put him up for long. He eventually wound up living with an uncle in Liverpool working as the delivery boy to a butcher and John got the feeling that he was going to be kicked out onto the street at any moment. At right around the same time he wound up delivering meat to a an American merchant ship called the Windamere which was docked nearby. The captain basically looked him up and down and was like hey you want to work on a boat there weren't a