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will luppofe to earn three pence a day 

 beiides attending upon her children. 

 This will be eight fliillings and fix pence 

 a week between them. If they happen 

 to have five fmall children, which is no 

 uncommon number, how are they to 

 fupport themfelves ? If we allov/ the 

 man a pound and an half of bread every 

 day, and the wife and children three 

 quarters of a pound, one with another, 

 which is about the quantity they will 

 require, this will be forty-two pounds a 

 week ; and the price of it cannot be 

 eilimated at lefs than three halfjpence a 

 pound. This brings the article of bread 

 alone to five fliillings and three pence a 

 week i and there remains only three (hil- 

 lings and three pence for all the other 

 necelTarles of life, Vv^hich muft be greatly 

 infufHcient. While the prefent high 

 price of provifions continues, it is im- 

 pofTible that fuch a family can eat any 

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