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Her means of living were derived from the employment of child-cadger to the Foundling Hospital of Dublin. In other words, she lived by conveying illegitimate children from the places of their birth to the establishment just mentioned, which has been very properly termed a bounty for national immorality.
"Poll Doolin, sir, the old child-cadger, and her foolish son, Raymond of the hats." "Don't say foolish, Sam; don't say foolish we know not well what the true difference between wisdom and folly is, nor how much wisdom is manifested in the peculiar state of this person. We know not, indeed, whether what we blindly, perhaps, term folly, may not be a gift to be thankful for.
You know the Word says, that the wisdom of man is foolishness before God. Our duty therefore is, to be thankful and humble." "Well, sir; but about Poll Doolin, the child-cadger?" "Child-cadger! that is a term I don't understand, Sam." "Why, sir, it means a woman who carries " "Sam, hold; if it be associated with human frailty, it is best left unspoken.
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