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with any which he has recited, may be found in all 

 sections of our country. 



To return to the consideration of the actual cost of 

 living, I give the lively and instructive narrative of 

 Mr. Solon Robinson, of New York, showing how a 

 widow supported herself and four children on a 

 dime a day : 



&quot; I had,&quot; said she, &quot; one day last week, only one dime in 

 the world, and that was to feed me and my four children 

 all day ; for I Avould not ask for credit, and I would not 

 borrow, and I never did beg. I did live through the day, 

 and I did not go hungry. I fed myself and family with 

 one dime.&quot; 



&quot; How ?&quot; 



&quot; Oh, that was not all. I bought fuel, too.&quot; 



&quot; What ! with one dime ?&quot; 



&quot; Yes, with one dime ! I bought two cents worth of 

 coke, because that is cheaper than coal, and because I could 

 kindle it with a piece of paper in my little furnace with two 

 or three little bits of charcoal that some careless boy had 

 dropped in the street just in my path. With three cents I 

 bought a scraggy piece of salt pork, half fat and half lean. 

 Thcte might have been half a pound of it the man did 

 not weigh it. Now, half iny money was gone, and the 

 show for breakfast, dinner, and supper, was certainly a very 

 poor one. With the rest of my clime I bought four cents 

 worth of white beans. By-the-by, I got these at night, and 

 soaked them in tepid water on a neighbor s stove till morn 

 ing. I had one cent left. I bought one cent s worth of corn- 

 meal, and the grocery man gave me a red-pepper pod.&quot; 



&quot; What was that for ?&quot; 



&quot; Wait a little you shall know. Of all things, peppers 

 and onions are appreciated by the poor in winter, because 



