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 nobody in the world but me to put a morsel of bread into its poor mouth; so I can’t bear to let it starve !”

“As she said this, she pressed the child to her bosom, and her tears dropped upon it, whilst she repeated, “if I was but able to work, or I could but get enough to keep it till I reach my home !”

“ Poor babe !” said Walden, “ poor, yet happy creature, who, in losing her who gave thee birth, found a second mother! eyes that dropt tears of pity on thy lot, and a heart that loves thee! no, thou shalt not from hard necessity be deserted !”

Walden then wrote upon a leaf of his pocket-book the name of the woman, and that of the village where she informed him she lived with her family; and giving her a small sum of money, promised that he would remit the same to her every year.

The woman, on holding the gold in her hand, which had never contained so much before, exclaimed, “Oh ! this is to much, worthy sir:” and being desired to keep it, she added, “ we shall now be rich indeed! my own little ones, and this one, and their grandmother, we shall all be rich !”

“ Good creature!” exclaimed Walden with emotion, “you are rich indeed, in a heart to which all other riches are dross! your humanity to this orphan will be better re--