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lady nurse she had engaged before _ she hit
on me, she encouraged her; and if she only
looked a little pale, she would bring her
brandy and water, what she was ready enough
‘to call for herself. I did my best, and I knew
the nurse would have choked me, if she could,
when I said the finest babbies in the world
were nursed'on praties and milk. She had .
her wine and brandy, too, and so much of
it, that the master noticed it, and told her
if he saw her again in that state she must
leave the house, and he would speak to his
wife about it; and she was that crafty, that
whenever she felt bewildered, she would.
lie on the sofa, and say her head ached.
- You may believe it was a cruel trial to me,
who had her sainted mother before me night
and day with her, that was now a woman,
‘cooing in her blue-eyed innocence, to see
she had. the bad of her father in her, and

_ to know that she was poisoning the uncon-