A Child's Walk of Twenty Miles.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 267, 9 November 1889, Page 10 (Supplement)

A Child's Walk of Twenty Miles.

One day recently, about seven o'clock, in the evening, two ladies from Leicester, walking on the beach aboub two miles north of Sk'egness, met a little girl trudging along the shore alone. She appeared, tired and faltering in her gait, and on being questioned she said she had come from Mablethorpe, and that her name was Rose. The ladies took the child to Inspector Taylor, of Skegness, who extracted the information that she was seven years of age, that her father and mother were named Walmsley, that they lived at Louth, and that her mother, accompanied by two girls and herself, had visited Mablethorpe. When they arrived the mother went to see a friend and sent tho girls on the shore, fiere, about half-past seven, they became separated, and Rose, as she explained it, had ever since been lookipgfor her sister. It is nineteen miles from Skegness to Mablethorpe by road and twenty by the sea, and all these miles, the child had travelled without accfaenfc. Most fortunate for her, the tides flowed early morniag and evening, so that during the time she was on her journey the water was receding and again advancing, otherwise she would have been drowned at ingoldmells or .other dangerous points. Indeed, when found she was walking where she musb tave been s«rroundea by water in a short time.