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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 906
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Text - as far as he could see - they would not get even that. After some further talk the secretary gave him two soup tickets and an order for a loaf of bread,
and repeated his promise to inquire into the case and bring it before the committee.

As Jack was returning home he passed the Soup Kitchen, where he saw the same lot of men who had been to the office of the Organized Benevolence Society for the soup tickets. They were waiting in a long line to be admitted. The premises being so small, the proprietor served them in batches of ten at a time.

On Wednesday the secretary called at the house, and on Friday Jack received a letter from him to the effect that the case had been duly considered by the committee,
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