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 to me as if you understood what I told you, and I've nobody in the whole world to love me, Billy;" and the tears streamed down her cheeks. "She's awful cross to me, Billy, and often beats me; and when I can't sell my matches she makes me go without anything to eat. A kind lady gave me a piece of bread to-day, and I saved some of the crumbs for your little wife to give her babies, and I'll give some to you, too, because you're the only friend I have besides your wife, now that the little gray kitten has gone;" and the little girl put a few crumbs on the ground in front of the sparrow.

"If I were to eat one of those crumbs I believe it would choke me," he called up to his little wife, who was watching them as she softly sang her babies to sleep.

"My feet are very sore, Billy," went on the child; "for, you see, I have to go very far to sell my matches, and I think I should