By Frederick Booth-Tucker, The Perfect Library
"Darkest India" from Frederick Booth-Tucker. Senior Salvation military officer of the past due 19th and early 20th centuries, and the son in legislation of normal William sales space, the Army's Founder (1853-1929).
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Off. I sleep in the street. I get very little food, and that I do not pay for. My children, I produce nothing. are wastrels like myself. But I if have any, I am lifted out of this beggary, I become a productive worker. I get a home, wear clothes, buy food, educate my own my ducers, all profit are I improved circumstances, but I have helped to improve the circumstances of others. Now, Not only have children, if raised, not by my Builders, shopkeepers, food-pro- redemption. one wastrel only, a mighty impetus is but 1,000,000 given tot such industry of every kind, and the border-landers, instead of being driven on the black rocks by the tide of adverse gin to drive back the and conquer the earth, and subdue it, till tide, surroundings, be- the border-landers will be border-landers and the dreadful days of hunger will live of famine and want, which the grey old no< longer,, only in the stories man will tell to his happy and prosperous grandchildren, and ten thousand links of love between emigrant sons and home-staying fathers will bind the fertile plains of Ceylon, Burmah, countries to the populous shores of India, Africa, and other CHAPTER XIV.
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