
          788.

house.  By the time we reached the house, she had entered.
After repeated knockings, a young girl about 15 yrs. old
came out.  She seemed very much frightened & quite excited.
She was most filthily attired & altogether presented
a most pitiable sight.  While we were talking to her, one of the
other children stepped out the house & just as we were leaving
returned with her father.  He told us that his name is Brady.
It was his little girl a child 13 yrs. old that was splitting
the wood.  He seemed to be quite poverty stricken.  He told
us, however, that he had had money, but had ventured it and
lost.  "Seven times" he said, " I've lost and if I had money again
I should venture again."
We left Mr. B. & went towards A.  We took the path leading
through his farm (rented from Mr. Benson).  Presently we came to
a negro's shanty.  This place was most wretched indeed. A 
little child about 10 yrs old was left in charge with two small
children, one still a baby.  As we approached the house, we
heard the crying of a little kitten.  We soon learned that it was
held a prisoner under a inverted peach basket, because as the little
girl told us it kept continually getting under her feet. She said she had
        