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of woman ! Shall we not feel then for the poor 

 widow who, in her old age, is doomed to exist on 

 two shillings a week, or threepence halfpenny a day. 



and to find herself cloth"* and wahinir and fuel and 

 bedding out of that ! And, the poor old men. the very 

 happiest of whom LH-IS, you see, less than id. a day, 

 at the end of 70 or HO years of a life, all hut six of 

 which have been years of labour! I have thought it 

 ri^hi to put bl</nk.f in -lead uf th- ; the 



secoitf/ ht-nL Men of less rigid morality, and less 

 free from all illicit intercourse, than t . rs of 



the Select Vestry of Uphu-band. \vmild. instead of 

 the word hust<ir<L" 1-ave used the more amiable one 

 Inci'-child ;' and. it may not he wholly improper 

 to ask these riirid morali-N. whether ti. 

 that tliev are guilty of LIBEL, aye, o! , nai 



lihel. in causing the>e poor girls' names to b* 

 and ji'ihliffhet/ in this way. Let them remember, 

 the greater the truth the greater the libel ; and. l.-t 

 them remernher. that the ui' ' : the children 



too, may have .' But, it is under the 1, 



of " FAMILIES" that we see that which i> mo*t 

 worthy of our attention. Observ. >////- 



lings a week is the wages for a day labourer in the vil- 

 lage. And, you see, it is only when there are more 

 than four children that the '{airily is allowed any- 

 thing at all. 4; LEVI COOK," for instance, has 

 chi/dren, and he receives allowance for one child. 

 "JOSEPH WHITE" ha* / /i r /// chihlrcn. and he receives 

 allowance for four. There are three widows undei 

 this head ; but, it is where there is a wan, the father 

 of the family, that we ou^ht to look with attention; 

 and here we find, that nothing at all is allowed to a 

 family of a man, a wife, and /v//. beyond 



the bare ei^ht shilling a week of wages; and this 

 is even worse than the allowance which I contrasted 

 with that of the hospital patients and convicted 

 Ions; for there I supposed the family to consist of a 

 man, his wife and three children. If I am told, that 

 the farmers, that the occupiers of houses and land, 

 are so poor that they cannot do more for their wretched 



