‘Here, here,’ she cried, ‘take this!’

‘O no, indeed, for your mamma

Would be offended, Miss.’

“'My mother? never; she delights

All sorrow to beguile;

And ’tis the sweetest joy she feels,

To make the wretched smile.

“'She taught me when I had enough,

To share it with the poor;

And never let a needy child