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Some Roundabout Papers
Some Roundabout
Papers
by Thackeray
1
Some Roundabout Papers
ON SOME CARP AT SANS
SOUCI
We have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who
has passed the last twenty-five years of her old life in a great metropolitan
establishment, the workhouse, namely, of the parish of Saint Lazarus.
Stay -- twenty-three or four years ago, she came out once, and thought to
earn a little money by hop- picking; but being overworked, and having
to lie out at night, she got a palsy which has incapacitated her from all
further labour, and has caused her poor old limbs to shake ever since.
An illustration of that dismal proverb which tells us how poverty
makes us acquainted with strange bed-fellows, this poor old shaking body
has to lay herself down every night in her workhouse bed by the side of
some other old woman with whom she may or may not agree. She
herself cant be a very pleasant bed-fellow, poor thing! with her shaking
old limbs and cold feet. She lies awake a deal of the night, to be sure, not
thinking of happy old times, for hers never were happy; but sleepless
with aches, and agues, and rheumatism of old age. The gentleman gave
me brandy-and- water, she said, her old voice shaking with rapture at the
thought. I never had a great love for Queen Charlotte, but I like her
better now from what this old lady told me. The Queen, who loved snuff
herself, has left a legacy of snuff to certain poorhouses; and, in her
watchful nights, this old woman takes a pinch of Queen Charlottes snuff,
and it do comfort me, s
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