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.

December Twenty-first