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her go. You can see the doctors in B , they know 



all about it they'll tell you what they done they 

 took her away, and she never come back Oh!" 

 Stifling his sobs, he went on, "And now they say I 

 am to send my children to school and what can I do ? 

 Look there !" pointing to a lump of humanity, a girl 

 who, at first glance, had thrown her imbecilic shadow 

 over the whole group, making them all look imbecilic 

 "do you see that girl ? She's always fallin' into fits, 

 and nobody can't do nothin' with her." Breaking in 

 here, the field worker said, "But, Mr. Saunders, you 

 ought not to have the burden and the care of that girl ; 

 she could be made so happy and comfortable in a place 

 where they understand such cases. You ought - 

 The field worker could get no farther. His eyes sud- 

 denly assumed a wild, desperate look and he burst out, 

 " No, no ! They'll never get her. They tried it once, 

 but they didn't get her. They took my wife away and 

 she never came back they'll never get her !" A few 

 soothing words to allay the storm she had uncon- 

 sciously raised, another expression of sympathy, and the 

 field worker drove away, pondering deeply the meaning . 

 of what had been seen and heard. 



We have come to the point where we no longer leave 

 babies or little children to die uncared for in our streets, 



