It is a fine berth to have got, the wages is good, and there are rooms to live in, and we can't refuse it after all we have been through, but they won't allow no children.
"If work hadn't been so hard to get, and we starving, we would have waited for something else, for it nearly kills me to part with my Jessie, but I've got to, and, dear father and mother, I hope you will forgive me, but I am sending her to you.

She is all I've got, and I am nearly crazy at losing her, but I don't know what else to do.
Life is very hard sometimes.

I know you will be good to her, and you can't help loving her, I know.

She is very good and quiet, and she will not give mother very much trouble, and I pray with all my heart she may be a better child, and more of a comfort to you than I have ever been.
"Your broken-hearted but loving, "Lizzie.
"P.S .-- She is five years old and strong and healthy.

I had her christened Jessamine May to remind me of the jessamine and the May-trees at home, for I love my old home dearer than any place in the world.