labouring

doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"

कोई कंगाल नही होता और मजदूरी करना चाहनेवालेको काम अवश्य मिल जाता है।

During the following five years he is still a labouring convict but the severity of his life is eased down a little.