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Case 4172

24. Letter from Mrs B. asking if the boys could remain in the Home a little longer 15 March 1901

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three months till I could judge if the step-father (A ) was keeping sober and had got the home enough together to give the boys a chance. (At present so much of the family possessions have to be redeemed from the pawn shop and to be replaced that the home is still, as I said, a very poor one, though each week improves it. Also there


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