Some of them learn to take her benefactions quite as if they came from their own relatives, grumbling at all she does, and scolding her with a family freedom.

One of these poor old women was injured in a fire years ago.

She has but the fragment of a hand left, and is grievously crippled in her feet.

Through years of pain she had become addicted to opium, and when she first came under the visitor's care, was only held from the poorhouse by the awful thought that she would there perish without her drug.

Five years of tender care have done wonders for her.