Ginx's Baby: His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire | ||
IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences.
AT every breakfast-table in town next morning the report of the great Protestant meeting was read, and a further report, in leaded type, of the discovery of Ginx's Baby at a later period of the evening by a policeman. A pretty comment on the proceedings! The Good Samaritan put his
It will be seen hereafter what the committee did with the baby, but I happen to have an account of what became of the funds. They were spent as follows, according to a
- £s.d.
- Committee-rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 0 0
- 2 Secretaries employed by the Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 0 0
- Agents, canvassing, &c. . . . . . . 88 6 2
- Printing Notices, Placards, Pamphlets, a "Daily Bulletin of Health,'' "Life of Ginx's Baby,'' "Protestant Babyhood, a Tale,'' "The Cradle of an Infant Martyr,'' "A Snatched Brand,'' and other Works issued by the Committee . . . . . . 596 13 5
- Advertisements of Meetings, Sermons, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 1 1
- Legal Expenses . . . . . .. . . . . 77 6 8
- Stationery . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 10 0
- Postage, Firing, and Sundries . . 27 19 2 —
- Total £ 1251 16 6 ================
This left £108 13s. 9 1/2d. for the baby's keep. No child could have been more thoroughly discussed, preached and written about, advertised,
In an age of luxury we are grown so luxurious as to be content to pay agents to do our good deeds for us; but they charge us three hundred per cent. for the privilege.
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