MOUTHS AND MEAT.

A POOR man, with a family of seven children, complained to his richer

neighbor of his hard case, his heavy family, and the inequality of

fortune. The other callously observed, that whenever Providence sent

mouths it sent meat. "True," said the former, "but it has sent to you

the _meat_, and me the _mouths_."

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