rag-seller

Updated: May 18, 2025

The doors of the "Work-house" are fast closed; but there, huddled along the cold pavement, and lying crouched upon its doorsteps, in heaps that resemble the gatherings of a rag-seller, are four-and- thirty shivering, famishing, and homeless human beings An institution for the relief of the destitute. This sight may be seen at any time.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life