'I'm going to write out an advertisement,' says he, 'saying how you met with the young woman, and what she was like, and how she was dressed.' 'Do you mean to say anything about the baby, sir ?' says I.'Certainly,' says he; 'it's only right, if we get at her friends by advertising, to give them the chance of doing something for the child.

And if they live anywhere in county, I believe we shall find them out; for the _Bangbury Chronicle,_ into which I mean to put the advertisement, goes everywhere in our part of England.' "So he sits down, and writes what he said he would, and takes it away to be printed in the next day's number of the newspaper.

'If nothing comes of this,' says he, 'I think I can manage about the burial with a charitable society here.

I'll take care and inform you the moment the advertisement's answered.' I hardly know how it was, sir; but I almost hoped they wouldn't answer it.

Having suckled the baby myself, and kissed its mother before she died, I couldn't make up my mind to the chance of its being took away from me just then.