| Show THE VALUE ov AN INFANT on new year years M morning orning while a number of men were drak ing in one of the gin palaces not far from the aven market place a colliers wife came in and offered for sale her infant child oie one ole of the company co any a carter agreed to purchase ca U the child for a shilling which was no sooner said than done whereupon the carter taid eaid paid the money and took the child home with him im and had bad it fed fid when the father of the child returned flom from bis work at night and heard that bib his child had thus been disposed of by its mother he immediately sent a policeman to a ahouse bouse in the new town where he waa was informed his bain had been taken to when sold the carter waa was found engaged in nursing the Isi shillings billings worth worthy the father demanded the child the carter said heyd hed held bout it an paid fort fortt so it mun bet bei b his 1 the father again demanded deci deul the child and agreed to give the man roan a shilling which it was alleged had bad been paid to the mother for be the infant that morning by this the child was restored to Us its fond mother onca once more |
