[Jasmin: Barber by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookJasmin: Barber CHAPTER VIII 3/14
He believed that the extremely poor should excite our liberality, the miserable our pity, the sick our assistance, the ignorant our instruction, and the fallen our helping hand. It was under such circumstances that Jasmin consented to recite his poems for the relief of the afflicted poor.
His fame had increased from year to year.
His songs were sung, and his poems were read, all over the South of France.
When it was known that he was willing to recite his poems for charitable purposes he was immediately assailed with invitations from far and near. When bread fell short in winter-time, and the poor were famished; when an hospital for the needy was starving for want of funds; when a creche or infants' asylum had to be founded; when a school, or an orphanage, had to be built or renovated, and money began to fail, an appeal was at once made to Jasmin's charitable feelings. It was not then usual for men like Jasmin to recite their poems in public.
Those who possessed his works might recite them for their own pleasure.
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