at a very bad home. She became apprenticed
to a dressmaker, who, on account of her staying
out beyond the prescribed hours one night
when she went with some other young people
to a Circus, positively refused to admit her
or give her any shelter from the streets. The
natural consequences of this unjustifiable
behaviour followed. She came to the Home
on the recommendation of a clergyman to
whom she fortunately applied, when in a
state of sickness and misery too deplorable
to be even suggested to the reader's imagination.
She remained in the Home (with an
interval of hospital treatment) upwards of a
year and a half, when she was sent abroad.
Her character is irreproachable, and she is
industrious, happy and full of gratitude.

Case number fifty was a very homely,
clumsy, ignorant girl, supposed to be about
nineteen, but who again had no knowledge of
her birthday. She was taken from a Ragged
School; her mother had died when she was a
little girl; and her father, marrying again,
had turned her out of doors, though her
mother-in-law had been kind to her. She
had been once in prison for breaking some
windows near the Mansion House, " having
nowheres as you can think of, to go to." She
had never gone wrong otherwise, and particularly
wished that "to be wrote down."
She was in as dirty and unwholesome a condition,
on her admission, as she could well be,
but was inconsolable at the idea of losing
her hair, until the fortunate suggestion
was made that it would grow more luxuriantly
after shaving. She then consented,
with many tears, to that (in her case) indispensable
operation. This deserted and
unfortunate creature, after a short period of
depression began to brighten, uniformly
showed a very honest and truthful nature,
and after remaining in the Home a year, has
recently emigrated; a thoroughly good plain
servant, with every susceptibility for forming
a faithful and affectionate attachment to her
employers.

Case number fifty-eight was a girl of nineteen,
all but starved through inability to live
by needlework. She had never gone wrong,
was gradually brought into a good bodily
condition, invariably conducted herself well,
and went abroad, rescued and happy.

Case number fifty-one, was a little ragged girl
of sixteen or seventeen, as she said; but of very
juvenile appearance. She was put to the bar
at a Police Office, with two much older women,
regular vagrants, for making a disturbance
at the workhouse gate on the previous night
on being refused relief. She had been a professed
tramp for six or seven years, knew
of no relation, and had had no friends but one
old woman, whose very name she did not
appear to be sure of. Her father, a scaffold
builder, she had " lost " on London Bridge
when she was ten or eleven years old. There
appeared little doubt that he had purposely
abandoned her, but she had no suspicion of it.
She had long been hop-picking in the hop
season, and wandering about the country at
all seasons, and was unaccustomed to shoes,
and had seldom slept in a bed. She answered
some searching questions without the least
reserve, and not at all in her own favour.
Her appearance of destitution was in perfect
keeping with her story. This girl was received
into the Home. Within a year, there
was clinging round the principal Superintendent's
neck, on board a ship bound for
Australia—in a state of grief at parting that
moved the bystanders to tears—a pretty little
neat modest useful girl, against whom not a
moment's complaint had been made, and who
had diligently learnt everything that had been
set before her.

Case number fifty-four, a good-looking
young woman of two-and-twenty, was first
seen in prison under remand on a charge
of attempting to commit suicide. Her mother
had died before she was two years old, and
her father had married again; but she spoke
in high and affectionate terms both of her
father and her mother-in-law. She had been a
travelling maid with an elderly lady, and, on
her mistress going to Russia, had returned
home to her father's. She had stayed out late
one night, in company with a " commissioner"
whom she had known abroad, was afraid or
ashamed to go home, and so went wrong.
Falling lower, and becoming poorer, she became
at last acquainted with a ticket-taker
at a railway station, who tired of the acquaintance.
One night when he had made
an appointment (as he had often done before)
and, on the plea of inability to leave his
duties, had put this girl in a cab, that she
might be taken safely home (she seemed to
have inspired him with that much enduring
regard), she pulled up the window
and swallowed two shillings' worth of the
essential oil of almonds which she had bought
at a chemist's an hour before. The driver
happened to look round when she still had
the bottle to her lips, immediately made
out the whole story, and had the presence of
mind to drive her straight to a hospital,
where she remained a month before she was
cured. She was in that state of depression
in the prison, that it was a matter for grave
consideration whether it would be safe to take
her into the Home, where, if she were bent
upon committing suicide, it would be almost
impossible to prevent her. After some talk
with her, however, it was decided to receive
her. She proved one of the best inmates it
has ever had, and remained in it seven months
before she emigrated. Her father, who had
never seen her since the night of her staying
out late, came to see her in the Home, and
confirmed these particulars. It is doubtful
whether any treatment but that pursued in
such an institution would have restored this
girl.

Case number fourteen was an extremely
pretty girl of twenty, whose mother was