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Excerpt from: Over The Hill To The Poor-House What is the use of heapin' on me a pauper's shame? Am I lazy or crazy? am I blind or lame? True, I am not so supple, nor yet so awful stout; But charity ain't no favor, if one can live without.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Over The Hill To The Poor-House | |
| Creator: | Will Carleton (author) | |
| Date: | 1897 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Source: | The Poorhouse Story (www.poorhousestory.com) | |
| Keywords: | Aging; Almshouses; Charity; Death; Economics; Family; Government Agencies; Institutions; Labor; Physical Disability; Poetry; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment | |
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