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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 27 October 1887, Page 4

A painful case of destitution was broaght to notice, the other day, in the streets ol Patie. A crowd of starving, ragged people were waiting, according to custom, outside the police sti'ion of the Palais da Justice for some broken victual*, when a young man who was auionng the shivering and hunger taterdemalions was suddenly se-m to fall fainting on the flags. He was taken to a B°ftt near at hand, r.nd on a large neckerchief being opened so as to giro the [wearer an opportunity of itiib'biug air, it was discovered that he unfortunate pauper was a girl, sonv’ iSauiiiritiins w!io passe by immediate v went for some wine .m l soup, wire . revived the women. She then inlornit- i them that she was a schoolmistress from Toulouse. She had come to Pan's for employment, bat had exhausted all her lunds without finding my work, and rather than do w o\g she resolved to assume masculine und lo follow the calling of n porta,