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in her ears, and was praying loud and fast in her
terror. She was stiff with fright when they took her
out again at Manchester, but yet she begged to be
taken at.once to Mill Fields. “There she found her
boy alive but in great danger. Still he mended from
that very night, and Prudence and the doctor said it
was owing to his mother’s nursing.

A month later and Mrs. Floyd brought her son
home, this time in the carrier’s cart; and when he
got quite well he was seen busily working among
the railway men.

The Squire chuckled over the change in Mra.

Floyd’s ideas. Where were her prejudices and her
texts of Scripture now? .

It is a great pity that people waste so much
cleverness in torturing texts to fit their own ideas. }

Anyhow Prudence’s prejudices regarding railway
travelling were all banished by that one trip with the
Squire, though probably she had the same difficulties
to overcome in the matter of the electric telegraph
later on, and, if she happen to live so long, in balloon
journeys by-and-by. H. A. F.