The Curate's Home #270124

The question has been frequently asked me, whether the picture contained in the following pages is one of pure fancy, or whether it is copied in any degree from real life. On the publication of a second edition, I feel bound to give a plain answer to this question. The picture is no mere fancy sketch. The privations, great and small, endured by the Lyster family, are matters not of imagination, but of simple fact.