makes one forget an aching heart. A broken finger willdrive away all recollections of an empty chair. And when a man feelsreally hungry he does not feel anything else.
We sleek, well-fed folk can hardly realize what feeling hungry islike. We know what it is to have no appetite and not to care for thedainty victuals placed before us, but we do not understand what itmeans to sicken for food--to die for bread while others waste it--togaze with famished eyes upon coarse fare steaming behind dingywindows, longing for a pen'orth of pea pudding and not having thepenny to buy it--to feel that a crust would be delicious and that abone would be a banquet.
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