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it will never fill my stomach--I guess as how no ravens, will
bring you victuals, whatever they mought do the prophet.
["Still, said Richard, "you will not trust and believe that the
Lord will provide in time of need." ["I will trust it, when I see it,"
said Becky pettishly. ["Look then, and believe, said Richard, lifting
up the lid of the chest, "the barrel and the cruse have not {failed?}.
She turn'd round, and on examing the contents of the chest,
was highly delighted--["Well, bless God," said she, "sure enough,
he has not forgot us in our time of want." ["Seem," said
her pious husband, to trust, as will us, to bless your heavenly
father." [Becky, could now readily promise to do
this and
much more, as she open'd first one paper, then another.
["Why if here begn't some nice tea, and sugar, and rice, and I
knows not what, why daddy, where in the world did you
get such a sight of nice things?" ["The Ravens," said
he smiling "brought us this supply" {"Bless them there
Ravens then," said Becky, "but come now, and tell me a body
who did give them to you?" {"Why thanks be to God, if
there are hard hearted ladies, there are kind hearted ladies
too, and it was my luck to day to meet with such a
one.--Indeed, I never need to have wanted, if I would
have ask'd, but I will not beg as long as we can keep
body and soul together without it. Besides I know how it
is, as same as it is known that a lady is kind and tender
hearted, and will give to the poor,--why all the poor go
to her, and to my certain knowledge hundreds go
Mrs M--d--n--where one, goes to another lady, and so
as I was saying, I wouldn't go to trouble her.--{But
today as I was coming by the seven buildings, she was
standing at the door, speaking to some cart-man, who
wouldn't mind the servants, but would drop their wood
just in the way of the carriages, and when she saw me with
my saw on my shoulder, she called me, and told me as I
seem'd out of work, I might assist in sawing up that wood
and to come to her, for the money, as she wish'd to