SCENE XVIIL

À lady was one day sprinkling her garden when she say à little girl on the road weeping. She went out and spoke to her, but the

get a little money. The lady at once went into the house, took a basket with a bottle of wine in it, and set out with the child to see the sick woman.

She found her in à small room without much in it. The woman was tall and fine-looking, and had an intelligent air. The lady saw that she could not live long, and she went to see her every day. It was her custom to visit poor sick people,

One day when the lady came in, the woraan seemed to be sleeping. She approached her gentlÿy in such a way that she cruld see her without disturbing her, and she saw that she was dead. The hittle girl wept when she heard this, but the kind-hearted lady took her home with her, and she was soon quite happy.