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children from 6 to 12 years old whose mother is dead and their father a soldier in Texas. An aged Grand mother has to toil hard and go without decent clothing to feed those whom this Nation bound itself to support. An old couple alone so sure subsisting on this rations. The husband was sick in bed. The wife gave me this message "Tell Col. Brown that he'll remember me - old Aunty Neaton - he brought me away from Middlesex in his boat - and he promised that I should never suffer. And jus tell him I is suffering now."