is my name."

"And being a General at Franco," says Jemmy, "means, I suppose, being a
French General?"

"Yes, I vas," said he, "General Baron de Punter--n'est 'a pas,
Amenaide?"

"Oh, yes!" said Madame Flicflac, and laughed; and I and Jemmy laughed
out of politeness: and a pretty laughing matter it was, as you shall
hear.

About this time my Jemmy became one of the Lady-Patronesses of that
admirable institution, "The Washerwoman's-Orphans' Home;" Lady de
Sudley was the great projector of it; and the manager and chaplain, the
excellent and Reverend Sidney Slopper. His salary, as chaplain, and that
of Doctor Leitch, the physician (both cousins of her ladyship's), drew
away five hundred pounds from the six subscribed to the Charity: and
Lady de Sudley thought a fete at Beulah Spa, with the aid of some of the
foreign princes who were in town last year, might bring a little more
money into its treasury. A tender appeal was accordingly drawn up, and
published in all the papers:--

"APPEAL.

"BRITISH WASHERWOMAN'S-ORPHANS' HOME.

"The 'Washerwoman's-Orphans' Home' has now been established seven years:
and the good which it has effected is, it may be confidently stated,
INCALCULABLE. Ninety-eight orphan children of Washerwomen have been
lodged within its walls. One hundred and two British Washerwomen
have been relieved when in the last state of decay. ONE HUNDRED AND
NINETY-EIGHT THOUSAND articles of male and female dress have been
washed, mended, buttoned, ironed, and mangled in the Establishment. And,
by an arrangement with the governors of the Foundling, it is hoped
that THE BABY-LINEN OF THAT HOSPITAL will be confided to the British
Washerwoman's Home!

"With such prospects before it, is it not sad, is it not lamentable to
think, that the Patronesses of the Society have been compelled to reject
the applications of no less than THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND ONE
BRITISH WASHERWOMEN, from lack of means for their support? Ladies of
England! Mothers of England! to you we appeal. Is there one of you that
will not respond to the cry in behalf of these deserving members of our
sex?

"It has been determined by the Ladies-Patronesses to give a fete at
Beulah Spa, on Thursday, July 25; which will be graced with the first
foreign and native TALENT; by the first foreign and native RANK; and
where they beg for the attendance of every WASHERWOMAN'S FRIEND."

Her Highness the Princess of Schloppenzollernschwigmaringen,