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PG-P.753.119
18 Oct 1753:12 (1295)
[In a report on the British fishery issue, the correspondent
discusses a visit to] Mr. Tull's late the Castle-tavern, in
Fleet-street; where I found forty or fifty children, the
poor of St. Bride's, braiding or weaving nets, for the
Society of the Free British Fishery. At our entrance, they
bowed; when, immediately, my ears were saluted with a chorus
of infantine voices, which joined in a chearful song,
exciting to industry. The tightness of their dress, the
mirth in their countenances, and the plumpness of their
cheeks, make me pronounce them happy. Here I could not
forbear contrasting, with this delightful sight, that of
children who, all in rags, with faces that speak want, and
blasphemy in their mouths, either incumber our streets, or
fill our prisons. . .
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