This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...compel no one to criminate hisself." "You know, Bob, that a good while ago our Matty disappeared. I saw that the dear child was dyin' for want o' food an' warmth an' fresh air, so I thinks to myself, 'why shouldn't I put 'er out to board wi' rich people for nothink?'" "A wery correct notion, an' cleverer than I gave you credit for. I'm glad to 'ear it too, for I feared sometimes that you'd bin an' done it." "Oh Bobby, how could you ever think that Well, I put the baby out to board with a family of the name of Twitter. Now it seems, all unbeknown to me, Mrs. Twitter is a great helper at the George Yard Eagged Schools, where our Hetty has often seen her; but as we've bin used never to speak about the work there, as your father didn't like it, of course I know'd nothin' about Mrs. Twitter bein' given to goin' there. Well, it seems she's very free with her money and gives a good deal away to poor people." (She's not the only one, thought the boy.) "So what does the Bible-nurse do when she hears about poor Hetty's illness but goes off and asks Mrs. Twitter to try an' git her a situation." "' Oh I know Hetty, ' says Mrs. Twitter at once, 'That nice girl that teaches one o' the Sunday school classes. Send her to me. I want a nurse for our baby, ' that's for Matty, Bob--" "What our baby " exclaimed the boy with a sudden blaze of excitement. - Yes--our baby. She calls it hers 1" "Well, now," said Bobby, after recovering from the fit of laughter and thigh-slapping into which this news had thrown him, " if this don't beat cockfightin' all to nuffin' why, mother, Hetty '11 know baby the moment she claps eyes on it." "Of course she will," said Mrs. Frog; "it is really very awkward, an' I can't think what to do. I 'm half afraid to tell Hetty." "Oh ...