Charity Begins at Home



A large, well built man named victor visited the vicarage and asked to see the vicar's wife, who was well known for her charity.

As he spoke to her he said in a voice breaking with emotion, I'd like to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district. Their father is dead, the mother is too ill to work, and the nine children are starving. They are about to be thrown out into the cold streets unless someone pays their $200 house rent.

'How frightful!' exclaimed the vicar's wife. 'May I ask who you are?'

The enormous visitor wiped his eyes with his handkerchief and said: I'm their landlord.


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