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"Kind o' bad and lonesome, and like as if I wanted to die, you know. Felt that way ever sence they put my father into the graveyard, and sent my mother to the poor-house and Hanner to ole Miss Means's. What kind of a place is a poor-house? Is it a poorer place than Means's? I wish I was dead and one of them clouds was a-carryin' me and Hanner and mother up to where father's gone, you know!
We heard there a most affecting account of a poor little orphan boy, who for some time attended one of our schools, and who seems there, as far as we can judge, to have been brought to a real concern about his soul, through what I said concerning the torments of hell, and who some time ago was taken to the poor-house some miles out of Bristol.
As one goes through the streets of Berlin there are no evidences of poverty to be seen; but over fifty-five per cent of the families in Berlin are families living in one room. The Germans are taken care of and educated very much in the same way that the authorities here look after the inmates of a poor-house or penitentiary.
"I am coffee and milk and bread and butter, the 'stuff that dreams are made on. You want some noble young woman a goddess, to make you over, to make you human. I only save you from the poor-house." There followed a bitter two years for this strange couple.
I 'll git her along twice as easy." With this the small elderly company set forth triumphant toward the poor-house, across the wide green field. The Gray Mills of Farley The mills of Farley were close together by the river, and the gray houses that belonged to them stood, tall and bare, alongside.
Three weeks from that time the winter school commenced; and Billy took up his abode at the poor-house, greatly to the satisfaction of Sally and Mary, and greatly to the annoyance of Miss Grundy, who, since Patsy's death, was crosser and more fault-finding than ever.
The boy was under sentence of death when I got the history of his life from him, he having been nine years in the successful commission of crime; and although nearly eighteen years of age, his appearance gave him credit for only being fourteen. He was an orphan, and had been brought up in the poor-house, whence he was apprenticed to a sweep in the city.
Finley, "what a little fool; use your eyes a little more and your tongue less, and you'll find things, I guess; and now let me see every thing right end up when I come down stairs. Do you hear?" "Yes, ma'am," said Letty, drawing a long sigh as Mrs. Finley closed the door. "Came from the poor-house, didn't you?" said Master John Finley, cracking a whip over Letty's head.
They're laying to do you out of your share. Unless you put up the cash within the four days left, they'll put it through without you. They told me to tell you that." And Crozier had not even cursed them. He said to Jesse Bulrush that it was an old game to get hold of a patent that made a fortune for a song while the patentee died in the poor-house.
She was to take a few necessaries to the poor-house with her; she had them to pack, and she also had some cleaning to do. She had a vague idea that the town, which seemed to loom over her like some dreadful shadowy giant of a child's story, would sell the house, and it must be left in neat order for the inspection of seller and buyer.
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