RECOMMENDATIONS
One day Dr. Barnardo was approached by a dirty, little, ragged boy who asked for admission to the London orphanage. The doctor looked at him and said, “But my boy, I do not know you. Who are you? What have you to recommend you?” The boy was both needy and bright and was quick to seize this opportunity and held up before Dr. Barnardo his ragged coat, and with a confident little voice he said: “If you please, sir, I thought these here would be all I needed to recommend me.” And Dr. Barnardo caught him up in his arms and took him in — for indeed that was all the recommendation he needed — his rags.
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