GOOD. EVIL.
We have three nice boys But the door-bell rings all
and three nice girls. the time.
We have enough to eat, But the coal bill is awful,
drink, and wear. and the Larrabee furnace has
given out. The firm that made
it has gone up, and no castings
can be got to mend it.
We have more books than But our friends borrow our
we can read, and do not care books, and only return odd
to read many newspapers. volumes.
We have many very dear But we are behindhand 143
friends--enough. names on our lists of calls.
We have health in our But the children may be
family. sick. The Lowndes children are.
We seem to be of some But Mrs. Hogarth has left
use in the world. Fred $200 for the poor, and he
is afraid he shall spend it wrong.
The country has gone to the
dogs.
GEORGE AND ANNA HALIBURTON.
GOOD. EVIL.
We have a nice home in You cannot give a cup of
town, and one in Sharon, and coffee to a beggar but he sends
a sea-shore place at Little five hundred million tramps to
Gau, and we have friends the door.
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