In all the big cities there are a many, and they have their hands full with the poor, the wicked, and the helpless.

One can find that sort of work anywhere, if one has a mind," said Mrs.Pecq.
"I wish we had some to do here.

I'd so like to go round with baskets of tea and rice, and give out tracts and talk to people.

Wouldn't you, girls ?" asked Molly, much taken with the new idea.
"It would be rather nice to have a society all to ourselves, and have meetings and resolutions and things," answered Merry, who was fond of little ceremonies, and always went to the sewing circle with her mother.
"We wouldn't let the boys come in.

We'd have it a secret society, as they do their temperance lodge, and we'd have badges and pass-words and grips.