Notable workers in humble life

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It was by a picture that I was at first led to take an interest in ragged schools,"said Dr.Guthrie in a speech delivered at a public meeing in Edinburgh,-by a picture in an old,obscure,decaying burgh that stands on the shores of the firth of forth...I went to see this place many year ago;and going into an inn for refreshments,I found the room covered with pictres of shepherdesses with their crooks and sailors in holiday attire; not particulary interesting.But above the chimney piece there stood a large print,more respectable than its neighbours,which some skipper,the captain of one of the few ships which now trade between that once busy port and england, and probably brought to the town.It represented a cobblers room.