turned towards her husband now cried she furiously if you say a word against it you and i shall quarrel after all these years who thee foolish woman quarrel with your own shadow while i go borrow a mule for ye bless thee my good man bless thee i never yet fail me at a pinch now eat your din who can while i go and make ready she took back with her in the cart and on the way questioned and cross questioned him severely and by turns till she had his mind inside out what there was of it margaret met her at the door pale and agitated and threw her arms round her neck and looked in her face come he is alive thank god said after her eagerly she looked at the child and then at the poor hollow eyed mother alternately lucky you sent for me said she � the child is poisoned poisoned i by whom by you you have been � nay indeed mother how can i help don t tell me margaret a nursing mother has no business to fret she must turn her mind away from her grief to the comfort that lies in her lap know you not that the child pines if the mother herself this comes of your reading and writing those idle a man but they keep all useful knowledge out of a the child must be h you cruel woman cried margaret i am sorry i sent for you ou rob me of the only bit of comfort i have in the world a nursing my i forget i am the most unhappy creature beneath the sun that you do not was the retort or he would not be the way he is mother i said margaret tis hard replied but thee would it not be tb look down and see his lovely face a looking up at ou out of a little coffin v � and how could you your other troubles with your heart aye full and your lap empty oh mother i consent to anything only save my boy that is a good trust to me i do stand by and see dearer than thou unfortunately there was another consent to be gained the babe s and he was more than his mother there said margaret trying to affect regret at his he loves me too well but was a match for them both as she came along she had observed a healthy young woman sitting outside her own door with an infant hard by she went and told her tlie case and would she nurse the child for the till she had matter to him the young woman consented with a smile and her child into the cradle and came into margaret s house she dropped a and put the child into her hands she examined and pitied it and over it and proceeded to nurse it just as if it had been hei own s the a d the hearth margaret who had been at her cast a look at add burst out cr ing tiie visitor looked up wliat ia to do wife ye told me not tbe mother waa unwilling she is not she is only a fool never heed her and you margaret i am ashamed of you you are a cruel hard hearted woman sobbed them as take m hand to guide the weak need be and you will excuse me but you are not my flesh and blood and boy is after giving this blunt speech time to sink she added come now is her own to save yours and yon can think of nothing better than bursting out a in tbe woman s face out for shame t nay wife said tbe thank heaven i have enough for my own and for hers to boot and not on her i maybe the troubles o ha her own milk and her heart into the bargain said the margaret looked her full in the face and down went her eyes i know x ought to be very grateful to you sobbed margaret to the nurse then turned her head and leaned away over the not to witness the intolerable sight of another nursing her and no distinction between this new mother and her the banished one the nurse you are very welcome my poor woman and so are you mistress which are my and know it not what are ye from all the better but i cannot call your face to mind oil you know not me my husband and me we are very humble folk by you but true and his wife are known of all the town and respected so i am at your call dame and at yours wife and yours my pretty night or day there s a woman of the right old sort as the door closed upon her i hate her i hate her i hate her said margaret with wonderful only laughed at this outburst that is right said she better say it as sit sly and think it it is very natural after all come here is your bundle o comfort take and hate that if you can and she put the child in her lap no no said margaret turning her head half away from him she could her life turn the other he is not my child now he is he i know not why she left him here for my part it was very good of her not to take him to her house cradle and all oh oh i oh oh oh i oh oh i ah i well one comfort is not dead this me light some other woman has got him a way from me like father like sou oh was sorry for her and let her cry in peace and after that when she wanted s aid used to take out to 