john2072
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Dołączył: 26 Sty 2011
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y for ten shillings per week
I beg to state my case. I am a tie-makerwhoafter working all the week
cannot earn more than five shillingsand I have a poor afflicted husband to
keep who hasn't earned a penny for more than ten years.
Imagine a womancapable of writing such a clearsensible
grammatical lettersupporting her husband and self on five shillings per
week will he not
Chicot[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published bbaaacpz! Mr. Holmes visited her. He had to squeeze to get into the room.
There lay her sick husband; there she worked all day long; there she
cookedatewashedand slept; and there her husband and she performed
all the functions of living and dying. There was no space for the
missionary to sit downsave on the bedwhich was partially covered with
ties and silk. The sick man's lungs were in the last stages of decay. He
coughed and expectorated constantlythe woman ceasing from her work to
assist him in his paroxysms. The silken fluff from the ties was not good
for his sickness; nor was his sickness good for the tiesand the handlers
and wearers of the ties yet to come.
Another case Mr. Holmes visited was that of a young girltwelve years
of agecharged in the police court with stealing food. He found her the
deputy mother of a boy of ninea crippled boy of sevenand a young
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