Canty's family lived - Past Simple in one room on the third floor of one of these houses.
The mother and the father had - Past Simple a bed, but Tom, his grandmother and his two sister Bet and Nan slept - Past Simple on the floor and covered - Past Simple themselves with rags.
Bet and Nan were - Past Simple fifteen years old.
They were - Past Simple twins.
They were - Past Simple always dirty and in rags, but they were - Past Simple kind-hearted girls.
The mother was - Past Simple like them.
But the father and the grandmother were - Past Simple very bad people.
They often got - Past Simple drunk and then they fought - Past Simple each other and beat - Past Simple the children