A FEW FOOTPRINTS

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On the occasion of opening the new library and municipal buildings at Falmouth in May, 1896, I said, in response to a resolution passed "To the list of toasts on such occasions, which generally included 'The Queen,' 'The Army, Navy, and Volunteers,' 'The Bishops, Clergy, and Ministers of other Denominations,' etc., I would add another-namely, 'The Health and Happiness of our Millions of Working Men and Women.' I hope the time will come, and come soon, when our sense of proportion will be sufficiently cultivated to include in our mutual admirations and congratulations the multitude whose lot it is to labour. When I read an interesting book I long to place it within reachable distance of anyone, however poor and lonely, who would like to read it; or, when I hear fine music, I say to myself: '0 that the people, the multitudinous people, had the requisite taste and opportunities to enjoy similar satisfaction'; and as with literature and music so with the other privileges of life."
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