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Maternity 171
pound loaf, soup of vegetables and dripping, and
a stew which costs 90 centimes. Total, 3f. 750.
This is the expenditure of the father: Return
ticket for tram, 3Oc. Tobacco, 150 Dinner,
if. 25c. The rent, 3Oof. Clothing for the whole
family, and boots: 16 pairs of boots for the chil
dren at 4f. 5oc. each, 4 for the parents at 8f.,
total again 3Oof. Total for the year, 2,6oof.
Tupin, who is an exceptional workman, earns i6of.
a month, that is to say, 2,1 oof. a year. There is
therefore an annual deficit of 5Oof., provided
Tupin keeps at work all the time, which never
happens in the life of a workingman. Under such
circumstances no one need be surprised that one of
his children is imprisoned for theft, and the other
is walking the streets, while Tupin himself is
driven to drink.
Tupin. When we began to get short in the house, my
wife and I started to quarrel. Every time a child came
we were mad at making it worse for the others. And
so ... I ended up in the saloon. It s warm there, and
you can t hear the children crying nor the mother com
plaining. And besides, when you have drink in you, you
forget. . . . And that s how we got poorer and poorer.
My fault, if you like. . . . Our last child was a cripple.
He was born in starvation, and his mother was worn out.
And they nursed him, and they nursed him, and they
nursed him. They did not leave him a minute. They
made him live in spite of himself. And they let the other
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