No, my plan and counsel would be, let every person, able to work, work and earn what he needs; and if the poor come around me??able-bodied men and women??take them and put them into the house. ??Do you need them??? No; but I will teach this girl to do housework, and teach that woman to sew and do other kinds of work, that they [p. 387] may be profitable when they get married or go for themselves.