The Orphans

There have been plans to adopt 12 to 15 orphans to live in Dickensian poverty in the basement of 292 with Giuseppe the Hog. They would sleep in small bunks, dress in filthy rags, and eat gruel from a communal trough. They would each be given their own crude wooden spoon, but would need to make their own replacement if they lost it.

Tasks
The orphans would be put to work doing dishes, sorting through boxes of architectural hardware, painting trim and hunting for truffles with Giuseppe. If one child for example found a matching set of brass hinges for us, he or she would be rewarded with some maple syrup in their gruel for the week.

Hijinks
The children would sing cheery songs while they toiled, and sometimes they would fill mean uncle Owen's sock drawer full of gruel.