It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the r
oads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. –“A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift Which sentence best paraphrases the passage? Irish cities are busy and “crowded.” Swift says that mothers might have three, four, or six children. Swift says that it is common to see impoverished people in the streets of Ireland. It is hard to read about the suffering of children in Ireland.
