ay a visit to all those
people who have been your friends, and even those who have been
otherwise. I intend to go to those cruel people in the Borough. A few
words of proper admonition may be of service to them, and induce them to
treat another poor child with more humanity. And to Mrs. Williams,
honest Davis, and that good man Joseph we must show our gratitude by
deeds as well as words.'

About a week after this we went to town, and soon after paid a visit to
Davis's cottage. We knocked at the door, which was opened by Mrs. Davis,
who seemed surprised at so many fine people coming to her cottage, and
asked, 'What was our pleasure?' My father told her that he was come to
thank her for the kindness she had shown to a little friendless girl who
went by the name of Lady Anne, and whom he had lately discovered to be
his daughter. She looked astonished, but, fixing her eyes upon me,
instantly recollected me, and burst into a flood of tears.

'Do not cry, Mrs. Davis,' said I, for I was grieved at seeing her weep.
'I do sincerely thank you, for you were very kind to me till just the
last.'

'Ah, Lady Anne,' said she, 'I have never been happy since I sent you
away. My husband was dreadfully angry with me, and I don't believe he
has forgiven me yet. He said that I had turned an orphan out of doors,
and that it would bring ill luck upon our heads, and so it proved, for
about a week after Mr. Freeman himself caught Susan as she was filling
her pockets with plums, and discharged her instantly. Luckily Phoebe had
none in her pocket, and Tom they knew to be an honest boy, so they two
escaped, but we had a world of trouble with Susan, for, as she had lost
her character, we could hardly get her a place at all, but at last a
woman in the village who takes in washing agreed to take her. There she
has a great deal of work to do for very little money, but she is
determined to be honest, and to stay there for a year that she may
recover her character, and then we hope that she will do better, but it
grieves me to the heart to think that I encouraged her to bring the
fruit home, for if I had scolded her for it at the first, she would have
left it off, and might now have been at Mr. Freeman's.'

'Well, my good woman,' said my father, 'you seem so sensible of your
error, both with respect to encouraging your daughter in dishonesty, and
your ill-treatment of mine at the last, that I shall say nothing further
to you on the subject, but thank