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Show 182 THE LIIIEI\'l'Y IH-;LL· vanished, and was never seen there again. Ilc bad not said what his name was ; and the poor woman was too ill to be asked any qucstionR; and thus it was that tho child bad no other name than NAN,- which was given her in baptism, because everybody must have a name ; and this was the first that occurred. She grew up at the time when parishes were in the habit of shifting their paupers from one to another by bribing the men of one settlement to marry the women of another i and when sbo was eiglltecn, she found herself married to a country lout who was as ignorant as herself, (which is saying everything,) and not much inclined to be<lge and ditch for five shillings a wool<, when l1c could live more comfortably in a workhouse. As their family came on, tlJCy became burdensome. Times were bad for the farmers; and it was thought as well to try the experiment of sbipping off families to the colonies, where they could maintain tbemsoh·cs. Bn.L and NAN grum· bled : they <lid not want to move : they did not NAN'S LOT IN LH'E. 183 know what a colo ny was : they did the sea was. But th not know what ey were obliged t In a very short t' o go. nne a chan Ignorant as the ge came over them y were, they w . . had found that t ere human. ~rhey ou when they were . yet more, when th . marned ; and c~r first child found what it \vas to Io . was born. They . ve' and love 'tl wtth a SUjX!rior ord f ' Wl l them as er o people o ] wonderfully. So h ' pence their minds ' w en they trave1led by tho starre-warron (tl to London o o ' tero were no . those days ) th railroads in ' ey saw more thin th have noticed in th . gs an they would etr youth Th towns; and as th . ey stared at the ' ey walked up th 1 • tho slow wagon th c ulls behind ' 0Y gathered fl hedges for the h.ldr owcrs out of the c 1 en ; and, when h taken through Lond h t cy were on, t cy agreed tb never seen such a pl b at they had • ace efore. n th . got to sen tho . Y e tunc they ' y were Wide awake . seasickness w ' and when their as over, they became . They played with I . quite merry. t lC eluldren . th Bn.t to elimb . th · oy helped little . oy made a rag doll for llbo out |