" "Then she'd better go to the workhouse," retorted Inspector Chippenfield brutally.

that he could no more work a miracle than you or I. In the sight of the multitude he was only an elderly sexton with a cast in his eye, with nothing but his office to keep him out of the workhouse.

It was, therefore, his custom, when he had earned enough in a day for his own wants, to put the rest aside, and bestow it upon sick or blind or maimed persons, lest they should come to the workhouse.

Hear the testimony of one of the workhouse officials to the writer, more than twenty-five years after, when the question, "Do you remember Miss Jones?" was asked.

The creative spirit in him transformed his sufferings into delight; but he never outgrew them; and, when he died, the eyes of a child were closed upon a scene touched, it is true, here and there with rapturous pleasure, rich in oddity, and trembling with pathos, but, in the main, as bleak and unsatisfying as the wards of a workhouse.

I found out, last winter, if you will believe it, that he lived on bread and water, to give out of his own wageswhich are barely twelve shillings a week- -five shillings a week for more than two months to a poor labouring man, to prevent his going to the workhouse, and being parted from his wife and children.' 'Noble, indeed!' said Lancelot.

But as, unfortunately, society has neglected to inform him of the state of the Cannibal Island labour-market, or to pay his passage thither when informed thereof, he has had to choose in the somewhat limited labour-field of the Whitford Priors' union, whose workhouse is already every winter filled with abler- bodied men than he, between starvationand this.

It was a case of necessity, the Colonel told them; they must either marry or gravitate ultimately to the workhouse.

'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.

'You may tire of the jail and the workhouse, And take to allotments and schools, But you've run up a debt that will never Be paid us by penny-club rules.

"$20 Reward will be paid for the apprehension and delivery, at the workhouse in Charleston, of a mulatto woman, named Ida.

Such an establishment as a workhouse or an old-fashioned monastery, living upon the produce of its own farming and supplying all its own labour, would be least embarrassed amidst the general perplexity.

He cannot see his cousin go to the workhouse.

Staffy: You that have not the substance of a crane's marrow, to go shrink from so small a bidding, let you go on the shaughraun or to the workhouse, where you would not take our advice.

It would be a strange thing now, he to be lying and his head broke, at the butt of a wall, and the woman he thought the whole world of to be getting her burial from the workhouse.

There must be deducted the idle men and women, the drunkards, the never satisfied, as the lad who sued every master; the workhouse families, the rookery families, and those who every harvest leave the place, and wander a great distance in search of exceptionally high wages.

THOMAS MUSKERRY CHARACTERS THOMAS MUSKERRY The Master of Garrisowen Workhouse MRS.

Thomas Muskerry's Successor FELIX TOURNOUR The Porter at Workhouse Lodge MYLES GORMAN A Blind Piper CHRISTY CLARKE

A Boy reared in the Workhouse SHANLEY | MICKIE CRIPES | Paupers in Workhouse AN OLD MAN | SCENE: Garrisowen, a town in the Irish Midlands.

A Boy reared in the Workhouse SHANLEY | MICKIE CRIPES | Paupers in Workhouse AN OLD MAN | SCENE: Garrisowen, a town in the Irish Midlands.

FIRST The Master's office in Garrisowen Workhouse.

How long is Tom Muskerry the Master of Garrisowen Workhouse?

I was born in the workhouse, and I mind when the Master came in to it.

CRILLY He was more particular when he was in the workhouse.

MUSKERRY Mr. Scollard, I ask you to give me leave to go out of the Workhouse for a day.