Why should they not hear our Lancashire girls' cry of 'Con yo help us a bit ?' Why should not they be reminded that these girls in cotton gowns and wooden clogs are wending their way towards the same heaven--or, alas, towards the same hell--whither wend all the daughters of Eve, no matter what their outer condition and dress?
Why should not they be asked to think how these striving girls have to pray daily, 'Lead us not into temptation,' while temptations innumerable stand everywhere about them?
Those of us who are men would rather do much than let our sisters go begging.

May not some of us take to doing more to prevent it?
I remember some poetry about the 'Sister bloodhounds, Want and Sin,' and know that they hunt oftener together than singly.

We have felt the fangs of the first: upon how many of us will the second pounce ?" In a second letter, inserted in The Times of April 22, 1862, the same writer says:--"Even during the short time which has elapsed since I wrote last week, many things have combined to show that the distress is rapidly increasing, and that there is a pressing need that we should go beyond the borders of our own county for help.

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