THE LITTLE NAIL-MAKER.

where and.go to sleep, from fatigue, having
made you unable to bestir yourself.

You think that we have drawn a very
dreadful picture, and so we have; but itis a
true one, and if you would shrink from one
week spent in that manner, what must it
be to always live in that way? You know
what we said about all being brethren—
these poor little factory children and nailors
are your brothers and sisters, and we want
you to feel for them, and to help them in
every way you can. But now we have
something pleasant to tell you.

Mr. Burritt felt so much pity for the
poor boy, that he wrote an account of his
sad situation, and sent it over to his young
friends in America, to excite their pity too.
They might have said, What a sad case,
and what a shame it is that some of the
English people don’t do something for him,
but it is not our place to help him; he
don’t belong to our country.

Did they say so% Oh, no, that would have
been a strange way of carrying out the prin-

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