- Poor Angela's not doing well. She's shivering all night and keeps asking for lemonade.
- The kids are starving, Angela isn't getting any better, and there's no food or money anywhere in the house.
- Frank decides that it's his job to take care of his family and steals a loaf of bread and two bottles of lemonade.
- The next day, Angela isn't any better and the boys cut school to take care of their baby brothers and sick mother.
- They run out of coal and have to go door to door asking for coal in the rich neighborhoods. The maids who open the doors aren't very charitable and so they boys decide they're better off stealing coal from the backyards of houses.
- After the McCourt boys score enough coal they head back home, but as soon as they're home they hear a knock at the door: it's the guard in charge of attendance at the school.
- The guard tells Frank to get Grandma Sheehan and Aunt Aggie to come to the house.
- Grandma Sheehan and Aunt Aggie scream at Frank and won't listen to a word he says.
- Angela's taken to the hospital with a bad case of pneumonia.
- The McCourt boys are brought to live with Aunt Aggie in the meantime.
- Aunt Aggie has Frank write Malachy Sr. a letter about how Angela's in the hospital.
- Even though living with Aunt Aggie is a nightmare, her husband Pa Keating is really nice and buys the boys ham so they can have a decent meal.
- Malachy Sr. shows up and takes the boys back to their house. Two days later, Angela arrives from the hospital.
- Malachy Sr. doesn't stay long and heads back to England soon after arriving. He promises that he'll send them money. The money never arrives and Angela has to go back to the dispensary.