Rand, Mary Abbott, b. 1840, Belford, Clarke & Co., publisher · Chicago : Belford, Clarke & Co. · leaf 121
hy,then, such sad faces ?The question is easily answered, so far as the beg-gar-boy is concerned. Want, — shivering, starving,cringing want, — possesses him—clothes, body, soul.But poor Jerrys miserable days are about to beexchanged for something better. Jack — the discontented-looking boy with the…
Children's literature, American
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