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I beg to state my case. I am a tie-makerwhoafter working all the week cannot earn more than five shillingsand I have a poor afflicted husband to keep who hasn't earned a penny for more than ten years. Imagine a womancapable of writing such a clearsensible grammatical lettersupporting her husband and self on five shillings per week will he not Chicotbags for sale On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published bbaaacpz! Mr. Holmes visited her. He had to squeeze to get into the room. There lay her sick husband; there she worked all day long; there she cookedatewashedand slept; and there her husband and she performed all the functions of living and dying. There was no space for the missionary to sit downsave on the bedwhich was partially covered with ties and silk. The sick man's lungs were in the last stages of decay. He coughed and expectorated constantlythe woman ceasing from her work to assist him in his paroxysms. The silken fluff from the ties was not good for his sickness; nor was his sickness good for the tiesand the handlers and wearers of the ties yet to come. Another case Mr. Holmes visited was that of a young girltwelve years of agecharged in the police court with stealing food. He found her the deputy mother of a boy of ninea crippled boy of sevenand a young |
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