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Nothing to Eat

By Horatio Alger Jr.

2020-07-25 05:21:42

Brief Extract: Though famine prevails not at all in the city; Though none of starvation have died in the street; Yet many there are now exciting our pity, Who're daily complaining of nothing to eat. The every-day cry and the every-day fare, That's ev ... Read more
Brief Extract: Though famine prevails not at all in the city; Though none of starvation have died in the street; Yet many there are now exciting our pity, Who're daily complaining of nothing to eat. The every-day cry and the every-day fare, That's every day heard where the Livewells are dining, Is nothing to eat, or else nothing to wear, Which naked and starving rich Merdles are whining. There's Kitty Malone-Mrs. Merdle 'tis now-Was ever on earth here before such a sinner; Protesting, excusing and swearing a vow, She'd nothing worth eating to give us for dinner. Why Kitty, if starving for want of a meal, And hadn’t a cent in the world to buy meat, You wouldn't exclaim with more pious zeal, "I'm dying of hunger-we've nothing to eat!!" Less

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File size77.104 KB
Print pages134
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1341477300
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Horatio Alger Jr.
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Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, most famous for his novels following the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and...

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