Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 24

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All along the military and excellent road built from Spain in Rico of I Bring--and
even more on the runs of bridle of which you/they pass for roads in very the
island--little brown huts or huts you/he/she can be seen, made of old man
aces and cans of can flattened out, and it covered of straw with leaves of palm.
In this the people live.

"We had sixty names on the waiting list of the House Missionario in
Rico of I Bring, and money you/he/she had come so we could take in some more, and
us--the superintendent and me--it went to try to find the more paupers.
Our search took us in a terrible patio, slimy, where we founded a
grandmother and three small girls. We could take but two of them.
The more old man was thirteen--we knew that she would have been too much old soon to be
it helped to everybody if we didn't now pick her/it up. The second was ten under,
and the more youth was three and a half. We could not bear to go away
the child of the dead mother, so we took the more old man and the more young people, and
promised to the second girl that we would come as soon as possible for her.
They lived in a room nine from twelve feet in ransom in that twenty-two
people slept some old suits under. You wonder that she fell on
his/her knees that implore 'Oh, lady, takes me, also!'"

"Next day his/her grandmother was picked up sick and you/he/she had to be expeditious to
the hospital, and in Tuesday when I went again to the patio the
girl had disappeared.

"Three months later we found her/it to us, beaten and it hurt from head to
foot, to the door of the House. You had been in a place where he/she takes care of
and for refuge was waited, but when the poor man, house-ill girl cried,
they misused out him to them and then the miserable one on the road, and somehow her
you find his/her way to our House.

"You would enjoy to see how quickly the girls in our House learn
to help each other. Mercedes had been in the House but ten days when
Francesca came--some one object lost that you/he/she had never worn shoes in all of his/her life,