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him out as an errand boy . Yet even under these circumstances she does not necessarily forego the means of getting him an education , or a suit of clothes for nothing : even then she can send him to one of the innumerable " Sunday Schools" in the neighbourhood ; and for clothing , she can apply to the " Educational Clothing Society . " " The
object of this society is the lending- of clothing to enable distressed children to attend Sunday schools . " Onlyy then , let her child be a distressed one , " and he is provided by the ** Educational Clothing Society" with a suit of clothes which he wears all the Sundays of one year , and , in case of / past regular attendance at school , alL the weekdays of the next . The Sundays of the second year , he begins with a new suit of clothes as before .
The probability , however , is , that , by the time the boy is eight or nine years old , his mother does succeed in procuring his admission into the Clothing Charity School : " and there is the same probability that she will continue him in it . She has strong reasons for so doingfor she knows that he will not only be clothed and educated at the expense of the charity , but that , when he is fourteen , that is , when he has remained five or six years in the school , he will be apprenticed by it to some tradesman , with a fee . varying in the different schools from 21 . to bl .
4 At fourteen , accordingly , the boy is put apprentice by the chanty to a weaver , and at the expiration of the usual term he begins work as a journeyman . He has hardly done so , before he proposes to marry a girl about his own age . He is aware , indeed , that there are difficulties in the way of their union ; and that , even on the most favourable supposition , their prospects in life cannot be considered flattering . —He has saved no money himself , and his intended is
equally unprepared for the expenses of an establishment . He knows that , working early and late , he can earn no more than 10 s . a week ^ that , in case of sickness or the failure of employment , he may frequently be deprived even of these—and that his own father , with a wife and seven children , was in this very predicament but the winter before ; nevertheless , " nature intended every one to marry ; " and , in the case of himself and his beloved , " it is their lot to come , together . "
On these unanswerable grounds he takes a room at 2 s . a week , and thus utterly unprepared , as he appears , either for the ordinary or contingent expenses of a family , he marries . ' We may suspect , however , from the result , that he is not so rash and improvident in this conduct , as , upon an ordinary calculation , he must appear to be .
*¦ Within a few months she has tfye prospect of a child—and a child brings with it many expenses ^ —but no matter , he need not pay them —for in his neighbourhood he may fairly calculate upon having them paid by charity . Charity never failed his mother in her difficultiesand why , in precisely the same difficulties , should it be withheld from him ? In the case of his wife , therefore , as in that of his mother
the Lying-in Hospital , " or the Lying-in Dispensary , " or the 44 Royal Maternity Society / ' provides the midwifery , &c . The " workhouse , " the nurse . The u Benevolent Society , " blankets , linen , pecuniary relief , &c . The •• parish doctor '—the * dispensary doctor /'
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Poor Laws and Paupers . 369
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/9/
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