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"I don't know," answered Freckles. The reply sounded so hopeless, even to his own ears, that he hastened to qualify it by adding: "You see, it's like this, sir. Kindnesses that people are paid to lay off in job lots and that belong equally to several hundred others, ain't going to be soaking into any one fellow so much." . . . ."When I was too old for the training they gave to the little children, they sent me to the closest ward school as long as the law would let them; but I was never like any of the other children, and they all knew it. I'd to go and come like a prisoner, and be working around the Home early and late for me board and clothes. I always wanted to learn mighty bad, but I was glad when that was over. " }}
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''Michael O'Halloran'', Mickey's mother had raised him to be able to look after himself because otherwise he would be taken to the home. When he meets Peaches after her granny died, other boarders are talking of how the girl will be taken to the home, and she's terrified.
* The first [[RCN Series]] novel, ''With the Lightnings'', has a scene of main characters Daniel and Adele watching a parade. Included in the parade is a group of small children from "the Electoral Home for Orphans and Foundlings," herded along by grim-looking adults carrying sticks. Daniel muses aloud that it's a good thing he and Adele are watching from a distance, hinting that otherwise he might use one of those sticks on the escorts. Looking up the orphanage's mortality statistics, Adele is amazed "so many of the children were able to walk at all...."
{{quote|"Colder than space, charity can be," [Daniel] said [[Tranquil Fury|in the same soft voice]].}}
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