family to do. It would not be a pleasant thing
to speculate upon his thoughts; but this I know,
and all London knows, that the cases of out-of-
works killing their wives and babies is not an un
common happening.

One cannot walk along the Thames Embank
ment, in the small hours of morning, from the
Houses of Parliament, past Cleopatra s Needle, to
Waterloo Bridge, without being reminded of the
sufferings, seven and twenty centuries old, recited
by the author of Job:

There are that remove the landmarks; they violently
take away flocks and feed them.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
widow s ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their
work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth
them food for their children.

They cut their provender in the field, and they glean
the vintage of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no
covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and
take a pledge of the poor.

So that they go about naked without clothing, and being
an hungered they carry the sheaves. Job xxiv. 2-10.

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