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and IT remember once cating some brown bread and
muk, and I thought it very good.

Ars. ML. I believe you would not much like it cons
stantly: besides, they can hardly get enough of that.
But you seem to know almost as little of the poor as
the young French princess did.

Sally. What was that, mamma?

Alrs. M. Why, there had been one year so bad a
harvest in Trance, that numbers of the poor were
famished to death. This calamity was so much talked
of, that it reached the court, and was mentioned
before the young princesses. “Dear me!” said one
of them, “how silly that was! Why, rather than be
famished, I would eat bread and cheese.” Her go-
verness was then obliged to acquaint her that the
greater part of her father’s subjects scarcely ever ate
anything better than black bread all their lives; and
that vast numbers would now think themselves very
happy to get only half their usual pittance of that.
Such wretchedness as this, was what the princess had
not the least idea of; and the account shocked her so
much, that she was glad to sacrifice all her finery to
afford some relief to the sufferings of the poor.

Sally. But I hope there is nobody famished in our
country.

irs. M. I hope not, for we have laws by which
every person is entitled to relief from the parish, if
unable to gain a subsistence; and, were there no laws
about it, | am sure it would be our duty to part with
every superfluity, rather than let a fellow-creature
perish for want of necessaries. .

Saily. Then do you think it was wrong for Miss
Pemberton to have all those fine things P

iifrs. Mf. No, my dear, if they are suitable to her for-
tune, and do not consuine the money which ought to be
employed in more useful things for herself and others.

Sally. But why might she not be contented with.
such things as 1 have; and give the money that the
rest cost to the poor ?

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