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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

about amongst them, and "barks" them home when the time of play is done and the hour of prayer has come, when the little ones kneel up in their cots and put up their small petitions.


Evening prayer.
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.

The dining-room.
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.

Here they are in their own particular dining-room. Never were such huge bowls of meat soup set before children. Still, they'll eat every bit, and a sweet or two on the top of that. I asked myself a hundred times, Can these ever have been such children as I have seen in the slums? This is