...fine thing to talk of the humble meal shared together. But what if there be no bread in the cupboard ? The innocent prattle of his children takes out the...do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful featares in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor peoSle, said a sensible...

...fine thing to talk of the humble meal shared together. But what if there be no bread in the cupboard ? The innocent prattle of his children takes out the...Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do Dot bring up theii children ; they drag them up. The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery,...

...snatches them from their sorrows, * " The children of the very poor," says the humane author of Elia, " do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful...dwellings. ' Poor people,' said a sensible old nurse to us, ' do not bring up their children — they drag them up.' The aliment of the poor babe was thin, unnourishing;...

...not read any thing of deeper pathos, and, at the hazard of crowding our pages, we give it entire. " The innocent prattle of his children takes out the...in that condition, that there is no childishness in itsdwellings. Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they...

...with decorous comforts the hours of Rest, and to provide for all the sudden necessities of a toilsome life. A thriftless and slattern waste converts what...do not bring up their children; they drag them up. * I have held correspondence on this point with some inhabitant or other in most of our manufacturing...

...early years of the poor, and were written by one who knew how to sympathize with the unfortunate : " The innocent prattle of his children takes out the...Poor people,' said a sensible old nurse to us once, ' don't bring up their children ; they drag them up.' The little careless darling of the wealthier...

...together! But what if there be no bread in the cupboard? The innocent prattle of 5, his children takes but the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of...childishness in its dwellings. Poor people, said a sensible pjd nurse to us once, do not bring up their children; they drag them up. The little careless darling...

...wise For saying nothing. — Shakspeare. LESSON LXII. The Children of the very Poor* — ANONYMOUS. 1 THE innocent prattle of his children takes out the...of the very poor do not prattle ! It is none of the leas: frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor people,...

...adage, bat like too many of its family, It is not infallible. A late admired English author s'ijs, "The children of the very poor do not prattle. It Is none of the least frightful feature« of that condition, that there is no childishness in itt dwellings. 'Poor people,' said a...

...passed in the homes of the abject poor. " Alas," as one says, " the children of the very poor never prattle. It is none of the least frightful features...dwellings. ' Poor people,' said a sensible old nurse ' do not bring up their children ; they drag them up.' The little careless darling of the wealthier...