TOO THE WORLD'S WORKERS. 



sympathy and help. The morning's work was most 

 painful and harassing. 



" I arrived about four, and Mr. Scott departed 

 soon after. It was arranged that while Mr. A. 

 stayed with the remaining boys, and Miss S. with 

 the girls, Mr. Morris should go and bring back the 

 boys by degrees, while I went to the girls. I found 

 them all much softened and subdued, and was very 

 glad to unbind them and bring them home. The 

 evening and the next morning were spent quietly, and 

 all returned to their duty." 



On another occasion, when some girls had broken 

 all bounds, and committed an offence for which they 

 had to be taken before the magistrates and sent to 

 prison, Miss Carpenter wrote : " My poor girls and I 

 wept together while I told them that their own mother 

 did not love them more than I, and that they had 

 now compelled us, in faithfulness to the duty we owed 

 to the Queen, who had committed them to our charge, 

 and to themselves, to give them up to the magistrates 

 to be controlled, as we could not control them ; that 

 I would visit them in prison if allowed, or if not, that 

 my thoughts would be with them ; and that I begged 

 them, as a token of love for me, to go off quietly. 

 They remained quite quiet the whole time till the 

 next day, when they went away as gently with Miss 

 A. to Bristol as if they were going to a pleasure." 



It seemed, therefore, that as far as could be seen 

 at present, it would be better that the boys and girls 



