Sorrow's circuit, or, Five years' experience in the Bedford Street Mission, Philadelphia . omes to die,He shrieks in wild affright;For snaky fiends are gathering nigh,Hell opens to his sight. 192 sorrows circuit. CHAPTER XXV. LITTLE KATY AND HER FAMILY. • Reader, you have before you on the opposile page atolerable sketch of the face and dress of poor LittleKaty, as given by the artist. I now wish to presentto you some incidents in the history of this little girl andher family, that could not be drawn by the pencil of theartist. Her family, did you say? Why she looks as thoughshe had almost spr
Sorrow's circuit, or, Five years' experience in the Bedford Street Mission, Philadelphia . omes to die,He shrieks in wild affright;For snaky fiends are gathering nigh,Hell opens to his sight. 192 sorrows circuit. CHAPTER XXV. LITTLE KATY AND HER FAMILY. • Reader, you have before you on the opposile page atolerable sketch of the face and dress of poor LittleKaty, as given by the artist. I now wish to presentto you some incidents in the history of this little girl andher family, that could not be drawn by the pencil of theartist. Her family, did you say? Why she looks as thoughshe had almost sprung up by chance, and had been left inBaker street to show what miserable specimens of handi-work chance produces. But this is not the case, as you will see if you go withme round into Baker street, and up one of its filthycourts. Here is a miserable hovel, hardly worthy thename of a house, located right along-side of a pig-pen,and surrounded with slop-barrels and the nauseatingrefuse that has been gathered up in the streets for theoccupants of the filthy pen. And this is Katys home,. LlTTLF, KATT, I LITTLE KATY AND IIER FAMILY. 193 is it ? Yes, all the home she has; a wretched one in-deed, because it is the home of the intemperate. But let us enter, and take a view of its appearance andinmates. I cannot ask you to sit down, for there are nochairs here, and a seat on the floor would not be so com-fortable, for it looks as though it had not been cleanedsince it was done four years ago by order of the Boardof Health. By the way, it would not be amiss for theworthy Board to pass round this way again. But hereis a rickety stairway leading to the attic; but we haveno business up there just now, as that is occupied byanother family. Just stand where you are, and youwill see enough to show you that Katys home is not themost comfortable imaginable. Here is a drunken woman, to begin with, a youngwoman, who three years ago moved in respectable so-ciety. But alas ! how fallen and degrad
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