Quote specific descriptive details suggesting that the orphan are dehumanized and treated like animals at the auction?

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Truly, there isn’t much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery—our mere existence is punishment enough.

“A simple matter of paperwork,” he tells the good people of Minnesota, “is all
that stands between you and one of the children on this stage—strong, healthy, good for farm work and helping around the house.

“The child you select is yours for free,” he adds, “on a ninety-day trial. At which point, if you so choose, you may send him back.”

As we watch people line up and begin to mount the steps to the stage, I feel like one of the cows in the agricultural show my granddad took me to in Kinvara.

The woman turns to the man and says softly, “The eyes can be fixed, don’t you think?”

“His name is Carmine.” Reaching up, I pry his monkey arms from around my neck, clasping them in my hand.

The man stands in front of us for a minute, then reaches out and squeezes Dutchy’s arm. “What’re you doing?” Dutchy says with surprise. “Open your mouth.” I can see that Dutchy wants to haul off and hit him, but Mr. Curran is watching us closely, and he doesn’t dare. The man sticks a dirty looking finger in his mouth. Dutchy jerks his head around.

Stepping up to Dutchy, she says, “We break horses. Boys aren’t that different.”