December Eighteenth
If I have withheld the poor from their desire or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail.
—Job xxxi:16.
December Nineteenth
“The Bible distinctly says, ‘Ye ask and ye receive not, because ye ask amiss.’”
“Then ask a widow.”
December Twentieth
In proportion as his passion for the widow abated and old age came on, he left off fox-hunting; but a hare is not yet safe that sits within ten miles of his house.
—Addison.