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A POOR little half-starved child, living in a London alley, had a ticket
given to her by a kind lady to admit her to a free tea and
entertainment. She was wild with delight at the idea, and was running up
to tell her mother, when she stumbled over a child crouched on the
stairs crying.
She asked what was the matter. The child said her mother had beaten her
because she asked for some breakfast, and she was so hungry she could
not help crying.
“Well,” said the other child, placing the ticket in her hand, “take
this, and get a good tea. I’ve had no breakfast either, but my mother
never beats me.”
She then passed on, leaving the ticket in the hand of the astonished
child.
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