PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs. Button, his stepfather, Mr.Button, and six little Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His wasnot an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a kitchen and a sculleryin a grimy little house in a grimy street made up of rows of exactlysimilar grimy little houses, and forming one of a hundred similarstreets in a northern manufacturing town. Mr. and Mrs. Button worked ina