– to comfort them: – if they liked to come for it: – and they should have nothing to pay for it. they thanked us; and said they would come for it. and one or other of them came – regularly – to our soup- kitchen, every day, – for weeks after; – and gratefully received it, and carried it home, to eat it together.
we gave them coals, and wood for fuel; and they had every day a comfortable fire. the clothes they had on when first we came to them, were very scanty, dirty, and in rags. we gave them some good warm clothing. they were very grateful for 