The Atlantic Monthly, volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863
The Atlantic Monthly, volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863
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I have had many occasions to remonstrate with you on yourindiscriminate charities, your encouragement of beggary and vice. Thewretch who went out last is breathing threats of personal violenceagainst you, because he has been put off with a five-cent piece and athree-cent piece!" How was the indignant remonstrant mortified, when the old man simplyturned his head to the clerk and said, -- "Mark, why did you not give that man his dime?" "I had given out all the dimes, Sir, and I gave him all I had... left. " "See that he gets his extra two cents the next time he comes. I have nodoubt I should have been mad, if I had been in his place. " A forlorn-looking man once came and asked for help. "I am afraid to give you money. I think I know how you will spend it. " Of course the man protested that strong drink was an abomination untohim, --that what his nature most craved was "pure, fresh milk. " The old man, with a look in which it would be hard to say whethershrewdness or credulity predominated, at once hastened to themilk-cellar and returned with a glass of milk; the fellow swallowed thedose with an eager reluctance quite comical to behold, but which excitedno movement in the muscles of the old gentleman's face.
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