cash payment of two shillings sixpence a week is
also made to each resident officer and servant. If
the pauper has ample food, why does the officer
have more ? And if the officer has not too much,
can the pauper be properly fed on less than half the
amount?"

But it is not alone the Ghetto-dweller, the pris
oner, and the pauper that starve. Hodge, of the
country, does not know what it is always to have
a full belly. In truth, it is his empty belly which
has driven him. to the city in such great numbers.
Let us investigate the way of living of a laborer
from a parish in the Bradfield Poor Law Union,
Berks. Supposing him to have two children, steady
work, a rent-free cottage, and an average weekly
wage of thirteen shillings, which is equivalent to
$3.25, then here is his weekly budget:

/tab\Bread (5 quarterns)...... i 10
/tab\Flour (-L gallon)....... 04
/tab\Tea (i Ib.)......... 06
/tab\Butter (i Ib.)......... 13
/tab\Lard (i Ib.)......... 06
/tab\Sugar (6 Ib.)......... i o
/tab\Bacon or other meat (about 4 Ib.)..28
/tab\Cheese (i Ib.)........ 08
/tab\Milk (half-tin condensed)..... 3i
/tab\Oil, candles, blue, soap, salt, pepper, etc. i o
/tab\Coal......... i 6
/tab\Carried forward...... 1 1 s.

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