After this; the boilermaker's family was compelled to fall back upon the Relief Committee's allowance.

He who has never gone hungry about the world, with a strong love of independence in his heart, seeking eagerly for work from day to day, and coming home night after night to a foodless, fireless house, and a starving family, disappointed and desponding, with the gloom of destitution deepening around him, can never fully realise what the feelings of such a man may be from anything that mere words can tell.
In Park Road, we called at the house of a hand-loom weaver.

I learnt, before we went in, that two families lived here, numbering together eight persons; and, though it was well known to the committee that they had suffered as severely as any on the relief list, yet their sufferings had been increased by the anonymous slanders of some ill-disposed neighbours.

They were quiet, well- conducted working people; and these slanders had grieved them very much.

I found the poor weaver's wife very sensitive on this subject.
Man's inhumanity to man may be found among the poor sometimes.