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OUR EMIGRANT. 185
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course no needlework could be done , save for herself , and for two or three weeks Anne would have been nearly starvedhad not the
, matron and others made continual Inquiries respecting her , and she given had her been bread entirel . Several without days food when . Her this was omitted rarel we however found energy y
y , , failed her . cc Now she knew there was going * to be an end to it , she didn't mind pinching a bit . " But one day her courage gave "way ;
she had been sent to Bucklersbury with a parcel for the ship , and to make some inquiry about its sailing . She had started without any breakfastand losing her returned without having executed her
commission , . She lained way her , trouble and tears in these terms : * _' 'Twas bad exp hshe had thoughtto sit at home all day with
nothing to eat enoug and nothing , to do ; but , let anybody try and they'd find it a deal worser to be pushed about the streets with a big
parcel , going one didn't know where , and jostled up Holborn Hill and 97 down again all in the rain , and then find one ' s self all
wrong The . excitement in the work-room about Anne ' s voyage and prospects was greatshe had become such a favorite that all were
willing to help her , ; and halfpence were subscribed and work done gratuitously for her , and even old clothes and books given her as
fei would keepsakes gned rush gratitude . down The . , m and atron Often hardl was when y very waiting these kind _j _> to resents , and knock were Anne at my made showed door her , burst , un she
in with— Ci Just do , Ma'am , look here ; would any one ever believe it ? I shall get rich before I start , and none of them ever knew me
before—wasn't it a blessed day when I knocked at this door ?" One poor woman having no means to help her positively gave
a , Saturday afternoon to paint her boxes as required , with the ship ' s name ; her husband had been a painter , and much she for thoug the ht kind she
could " save Anne a bifc of money thus . " So - ness and sympathy of one poor one towards another . Anne ' s favorite text was Cl Words is nothingMa'am ; 'tis no use
of let talking you see , . " may The be g you irl ' s wouldn possessions , 't believe had reall me , y 'ti , accumulated s best to wait so fast and
that the difficulty of packing them arose . The lady who had before taken great interest in her from the first , agreed , if the boxes were
brought to the Institution , to overcome this difficulty herself . The closing of these boxes was a scene worth witnessing , Anne having
some original remark to make on each article as it was deposited in its along place with . her " This in all shawl her troubles she'd neve , and r part knew with , that again it did , , it what had she been 'd
mile act gone of together throug packin h g . lookin " some " That g handkerchiefs for work ere article , " & c . she and At herself last she , as had had ' the walked lad given y was her m in an mind , y the the a irl saidwith an itated voice" PleaseMaamdo you
putting g them , things ag right at the top , , where , I could , get at them ?"
Our Emigrant. 185
OUR EMIGRANT . 185
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/41/
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