Translate the following passage into English.家里最大的是我，才十三岁，就唱戏养家了。真是一个钱撕成八瓣用，心里总想着怎样能够改善家里的困境。早晨去喊嗓子，我带着一个小篮拾煤核，为了回家取暖。拾煤核也要放聪明点儿，常常换换地方，为的是不受那些野男孩子的欺负。那些男孩子是成群结队的拾煤核，我是一个人，怕被他们欺负，我用换地方的办法，躲着他们。他们看见女孩拾煤核就捣乱，揪我的小辫，向我身上扔虫子，吓得我看见他们就躲。
AT THIRTEEN, AS THE ELDEST CHILD, I ACTED TO HELP SUPPORT THE FAMILY. EACH SINGLE COPPER HAD TO BE EKED OUT, AND I KEPT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.  EACH MORNING WHEN I WENT OUT TO PRACTICE SINGING IN THE OPEN AIR, I TOOK A LITTLE BASKET TO SCROUNGE FOR CINDERS FOR OUR STOVE. EVEN WHEN SCROUNGING FOR CINDERS YOU HAD TO HAVE YOUR WITS ABOUT YOU AND SHIFT FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO AVOID THOSE MISCHIEVOUS BOYS WHO BANDED TOGETHER TO COLLECT CINDERS TOO.  BEING ALL ON MY OWN AND AFRAID OF BEING BULLIED BY THEM I SHIFTED AROUND TO DODGE THEM. BECAUSE WHEN THEY FOUND ME SCAVENGING THEY MADE TROUBLE, PULLING MY PLAIT OR THROWING INSECTS AT ME, SO THAT THE SIGHT OF THEM FRIGHTENED ME AWAY.
