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THE POOR IN GREAT  CITIES
 

poverty is caused by crime, no relief can come except by breaking
up the home. Not long since I was called to take charge of the
funeral of a little child.    I groped my way up the creaking, filthy
 


 

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An invalid  Supporting His Family by  Making Lace.
 

stairs of a small, old-fashioned rear tenement. I knocked, but heard
no response ; I pushed the door open, but found no one in the room,
yet  this was the place—" Rear, tox3 floor, left door."    I made no