A LITTLE HEROINE.

Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A LITTLE HEROINE.

Only laei wsek a phjricfwj to a&tepeisary in the cast of London told me of a little girl of but sixteen year* of age wko c*me to him to get advice scd medians for pam and incrotsing weakness. He saw at onoe that Bbo was overworked and underfed, bnt ebe would not allow this, and it was with difficulty that he drew her history frcm her, Living in one of the closest and worst parts of the pa'ich, ebe has for two years—ever since the death of her mother, who was a widowentirely rnpported two little brothers and a {.later younger than herself by her cita work. She related this f aot aenotbiDgextratrdinaty, and said: " Mother bade me keep * home for the children when she was a-dying, and so, of course, I've done it." " But* bow!" said the doctor, looking at her pale, truthful little face. " Why, I have toothed mangle, and I manage it well enough," said the. " Sometimes it's too heavy for me, and then a neighbor comes in and helps me. .Besides, we have a lodger or two, and so we' gets along." Want of foodj air, arid 'the overstrain of hard work on a young frame are not to be cured by the good doctor took a Bote, and sent the child's namor and address to my "garden vioaress," who at once investigated the oaie, -and foUod it all too true, The neighbors wonder not at aIF; they knew the child was good and honest, and had known her mother, who left her this ebargeon her deathbed. 1 They, toe, iaw that she was.falling id' health, that the strain was too much for her. j Bat what oouldthey do ? They had their own burdens to bear. Now I hear the iittle girl has found; a willing helper with her charge. The children are to go to school, and a distant relation In a Saffolk village has turned up, •snd effers a home to one of them, perhaps to "the weary, brave little body herself, who t as never complained or faltered, and would have* been "faithfulunto death."—' Dundee Telegraph.'