... THE WORKHOUSE BOY. At-k Th, Mistktoe Bsug. THE cloth was laid in the Vorkhouse hail, And the great coats hung on the vhite-vashed vall; The paupers all vere blithe and gay, Keeping their Christmas holiday: When the master he cried, with a roguish leer ...

... THE WORKHOUSE BOY. AIR-Tile Mistletoe Bough. TmE cloth was laid in the Vorkhouse hall, And the great coats hung on the vhite-vashed vail; The paupers all vere blithe and gay, Keeping their Christmas holiday: When the master he cried, with a roguish leer ...

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... assimilated as the difference in their respective situations will admit. The Workhouse King (or Governor) is the Sultan of the ballet; the Parish Beadle is the Ishmael; and the Workhouse Clerk forms a substitute for the Guardian Eunuch; whilst the whole body ...

... that the unfortunate woman was sitting about the streets, perishing from cold and starvation j took her to St. George's workhouse, but they refused to take her in ; he then took her to the station-house. Mr. Dyer—What parish do you belong tol Woman—St ...

... master of the workhouse, and remained in confinement from Sunday up to the time when brought before the bench on Monday.—Mr. Ranford, the master of the workhouse, said he knew nothing more of the case than that Mrs. King came to the workhouse on Sunday morning ...

... wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: rs Does Age begin to prattle ? -no man heark'rieth to lis tales. Pc 'P al In a costly palace if the child with a pin f De but chance to prick a finger, strait the ducteris called in; o td In a wretched workhouse men ...

... volt of the Workhouse,-a very fair, well acted, and humorous burlesque on its predecessor at Covent Garden. Cracsk4ull, the beadle, returning triumphant from battle with a rebellious apple- woman, demands from the master of the workhouse a holiday for ...

... never intended to be, it were, chapels of ease to parish or union workhouses. appears that the unfortunate woman, being brought before the magistrates next day, was sent to Clerkenwell workhouse, but it was clearly the bouuden duty of the officer* of the Newington ...

... Union considered in four phases : in relation to the method of administering relief; the manner which tho workhouse was kept; the dietary of the workhouse and the mode in which the books of the Union were kept. The enormous amount of abuses found to prevail ...

... appropriated. The question was, whether they would not be better in the workhouse than in their present situation out of it ?—Surgeon: They would be decidedly better in the workhouse, where they would have clean bed, wine, and other nourishment, by order ...