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The latter are generally better dressed and have 
a cleaner appearance than the other classes of 
mendicants. 
The “widow and her fatherless children” is 
not an uncommon group, and is often met with 
at the corners of streets “ begging for alms.” 
As in other countries nearer home, the parentage 
of the youthful members of the family is not 
quite as certain as the mother would have us 
believe. 
The above groups were photographed by 
Dr. Lamprey, of the 67th Regiment, who had 
charge of an hospital for the poor of Tien-tsin, 
established and supported by the British Army of 
Occupation. All honour to the British army ! 
this was a noble example to set before the natives 
of a heathen land. The hospital was evidently 
appreciated by the Chinese, and did a great 
amount of good. Dr. Lamprey, in a printed 
report which he was good enough to give me, 
tells some amusing stories of these Tien-tsin beg- 
gars. “ A beggar presented himself at the 
hospital, with his arm in a bent position, and 
drawn up to his head through the contraction of a 
cicatrix, caused by a burn he had received when a 
child. A very simple operation would have 
sufficed to release the limb, and give him as good 
use of it as he needed to enable him to work, but 
he would not submit to it ; it was not the pain of 
the operation he feared, but it was that he should 
lose so good a sympathy exciter ! In short, tb be 
