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Poor Annie was a pretty blue-eyed, kind-hearted girl, the only hope of an aged father, and he was her only friend. They were poor, but cheerful as poverty can be: he obtained his living by daily labour, and Annie was placed to service at the house of a neighbouring farmer.

"Without education, simple and unsuspecting, she listened to the improper addresses of her master's son.

As soon as the circumstance became known to her mistress, she was discharged in disgrace; her inhuman seducer refusing any recompense, even pecuniary.

Ashamed to return to the roof of her father in her present degraded position, and with a mind clogged by ignorance and burthened by guilt, she gave way to despair, and put a period to her existence by throwing herself into a pond near to her early home.