A big burly man visited his pastor s home and asked to see the minister s wife a woman well known for her charitable impulses Madam he said in a broken voice I wish to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district The father of the family is dead the mother is too ill to work and the nine children are starving They are about to be turned into the cold empty streets unless someone pays their rent which amounts to 400 How terrible exclaimed the preacher s wife May I ask who you are? They sympathetic visitor applied his handkerchief to his eyes I m the landlord he sobbed

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