The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17

HhS pllng up the agony did | attempt to de-
scribe that baby's face. 1t was the countenance
OF an infant that had cried itself to Sleep and to
whom pain was so familiar, that it invaded its
dreams, causing its mites of features to twitch
anu u qulVer so that it would have been mercy
Evening, sir; take a cheer!" remarked Mr..
sir" ''0 1'''o 'N'
It was very odd. Clearly there was great
mistake somewhere, and yet as far as they had
gone, the proceedings were not much at variance
WIN the original text. | was M. d. and
doctor was expected. This was the young un,'
nr, ,,S OIleek declared and young one, be-
reaVed young one who had lost his darling play
ter to me.
'0h, is that the young ons;" remarked.
I'm afeard."
The same symptoms. eh?"
no mistake
This then was not the ssvounc nm" Mrs. Ok
leek had written about. This was a girl, it
seemed.
Pray, how long is it since medical man saw
the child! inquired, am afraid in a tone that
reused suspicion in Mr.. OXlcck's mind.
"Oh, you know, when he came last week
you're come instead of him? You haze come
instead of him, haven't you?"
"No, indeed. replied. 1--WE come to talk
about that advertisement of yours
Mr.. ONleek for a moment looked blank. but
only for a moment He saw the trap just as he
was about to set his foot in it, and Withdrew it
in time.
"Not here, he remarked, impudently.
"But must beg your pardon il is here. You
forget l wrote TO you as VI. d.
BY this time Mr. OXlccll had seized and lit
his short pipe, and was pulling away at it with
great vigOr.
90 "YOu're come TO the Urouo. shOn 7 foil ,-ou'9
he replied, from behind the impenetrablc cloud:
1--WE don't know no NJ. d.. nor VI. p, nor NJ
anythink: it's mistake"
perhaps if | show vou vour wffe's yyritfno
YOU will be conyinced?"
"NO I shau't: its all a mistake I tell vor,
| sat down on n chair.
"Will vour wife be lone before she rnturns;"
I iuouirCd
Cant say-oh. here She clmc no,r p'rans
vou'U believe that vor're come to thn yrn,or
Shop. Nv dear. what do we know about NJ
d. 5. or advertising. ehy"
"Nothipu."
Mrs OXleek was a short. fat woman with n
sunnv smile on hpr Horid f,rn and a ,rnnor,i ,i,.
of content about her. She had brono5t in Ivitb
her pot of beer and a quantity of pork and
sausages for supper
Nothing" she repeated instantly. taking the
cue: 'yyho SAYS that we do."
This gentlcmans been a tacllIin' me a mood
'un I can tell YOU SAYS that hes rot vour
writing to show for summat or other"
"Wherc is my Nriting?" asked Mrs Oylecll
defanty.
This is IT, if I am not mistaken ma'au "
And dfspIavcd it,
'Ah that's where it is. you see, said She
with triumphant chuckle, won are mistaken
You are only wasting your time my rood Sir
NV name isn't ". I.' and never was. Allow me
to light You down stairs nv rood sir"
And / did allow her. What else could do?
At the same time and although nv investigations
led to nothing Mt all, l came away convinced
as doubtless the reader is that there was no
mistake" and that Mr. and Mrs. Oylecl were
Of the tribe of Ogrcs who lattcu on little chill
drcn.
the press, there appears in the newspapers q
grimly apt illustration of the above statement
So exactly do the details of the case in question
bear out the arguments used in support of my
views of baby-farming, that | viii take the
liberty of setting the matter before the reader
just rs it was set before the coroner.
IAN investigation of a singular character was
held by Mr.. Richards on Thursday NIGHT at the
Lord Campbell Tavern, Bow, respecting the
death of Frederick Wood AGED two wears and
three months
Miss A. W, of HOytOn, said deceased was
q sicllly child, and ten months ago witness took
it to Mrs. Sayill of 81 SwaytOn Road. Bow. She
paid her four and siXpence a week to take care
of the child. She never saw more than two other
babies ut Mrs. SayilIs house. She thought her
child was thoroughly attended to. The deceased
met with an accident and its thigh was broken
but the doctor said that the witness need not put
herself out in the slightest degree. for the child
was getting on very well. Witness could not
get away from business more than once a week
to see the child. She had not seen the child for
five weeks.
Mrs Caroline Savill said she was the wife of
a porter in the city. The deceased mad been
with her ten months She Dut him TO bed at @
o'clock on Saturday niuht and at hoIf-post \ on
Sunday morning She said to her daughter He
looks strange and then she put a looking-glass
TO his month and found that he was dead 49,,
''By the Coroner: She could account for the
broken THIGH Last October when she was
taking deceased up to bed she slipped down