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from the neighbours." [He said this with tears in his 

 eyes.] 



" But if you went there with your wife ?" 

 " Sure, they wouldn't leave her in the same place with 

 me ; they 'd put us asunder." 



ee And is that the reason ? You 'd be treated well 

 there." 



(e It is the reason, sir, and she shan't go as long as I 

 can get a bit for her." 



3. A small room ; a man, Terence Sullivan, lying on a 

 bed, said " he was dead in his limbs." A neighbour at- 

 tends him sometimes, and shakes his straw ; he gets Sd. 

 a week from the Sick Poor Society, and pays 6d. of it for 

 his rent ; has only 2d. for himself. He has a son, a la- 

 bouring man, badly able to support himself, and with a 

 wife that wouldn't let him do much for the old father if 

 he were able ; he brings home an odd meal ; a charitable 

 woman in the neighbourhood sends him a bit of breakfast ; 

 he would not go to the House of Industry. 

 "Why so?" 



" Why, because I am afear'd I couldn't make my soul* 

 there as I can here." 



" The priest attends there regularly." 

 " Well, may be he do, but I couldn't go there at all." 

 " But the Society won't be able to give you assistance 

 any longer." 



66 Well, God is good I 'd rather take my chance, and 

 stay among neighbours, than go there." 



4. A very small room ; a young woman lying on a bed ; 

 she has swellings in her legs and pains all over her. Her 



* Insure eternal salvation. 



