The Blue Coat Boys Or School Life in Christs Hospital With a Short History O
The Blue Coat Boys Or School Life in Christs Hospital With a Short History O
William Harnett Blanch
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They have roast beef twelve days in the year. Their supper is bread and cheese, or butter. Only on Wednesdays and Fridays they have pudding pies. " Nearly sixty years later, in 1798, according to a recent writer, matters were not much better. " In my 74 The Blue-Coat Boys. ward, " lie says, " there stood every morning in the lower room one largo tub (like a cooling tub in a brewhouse) filled with water ; all the ward washed in this, a bowl of soft soap standing by it, and wiped themselves on on...e large jack-towel that hung behind the door, and was changed only once a week. The breakfast bell rang about seven, when we all went into the hall, the nurses following, with boys from each ward (called " bread-boys ") carrying large baskets on their shoulders containing bread, which were taken to the head of each table, where stood the nurse, who, after " grace, " went down the table, serving out to each boy half of a two-penny loaf of bread. ' Well, ' you'll say, ' but where's the butter ? ' None was allowed nothing but bare bread.
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