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[The 3 Rs do little to help poor-law
children. What is most wanted is: continued
administration of the milk of human kindness:
which is the appointed nutrient of Child-souls:
& which no cow belonging to the R. farm can yield]
(4) The General's proposed improvements
most judicous, if you myst have the present
schools.
But All this will cost so much, that Guardians
will scarcely sanction it: Boarding-out cheapest.
(5) As regards Casual children, it is
clear that there should be some power
somewhere to keep the child in School,
if the character & circumstances of the
Parents appear to render its going out
unadvisable.
[It is heart-rending to us sometimes -
in the Workhouse Infirmaries - to have to give
up a little child to a bad mother going out.
E.g. We had a little girl of 7 years old who used to go
down on her little knees by herself - in the Lavatory
- praying that she might not forget the 'good words'