A Baby's Strange Adventure.

Hastings Standard, Issue 128, 23 September 1896, Page 4

A Baby's Strange Adventure.

A rather curious adventure to the tiny granddaughter of an officer is reported by the Daily Telegraph from the wild area of Hampstead Heath. The child arrived in London from the country in charge of its nurse, who had never been in the metropolis before. In the afternoon she took the girl in a perambulator to enjoy the air of the Heath, and unthinkingly wandered to one of its most secluded parts. The nurse left the child under a tree, by the side of a hedge, while she went to gather wild flowers, and while so employed she lost her "bearings," and was unable to retrace her way to the perambulator and its precious contents. In vain she wandered up and down in what she thought was the neighborhood of the spot where the infant ought to be, and in vain she called it by its name. Neither baby-carriage nor reponse were forthcoming. She asked assistance in the search from some people she met, but no success fellowed, and at last the grandfather was informed of the disaster. He at once summoned a band of searchers, and the wide expanse of the Heath was scoured for hours in vain. At last just after midijight, the perambulator was discovered under the tree by the side of a hedge, where it had been left, and in it the child was found peacefully sleeping. The nursemaid is penitent, and will be more wideawake another time,