have had his first comfortable bait of air. Unfortunately for,

the experimenal philosophy of the female to whose protecting care

Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually

attended the operation of HER system; for at the very moment when

the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible

portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in

eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from

want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got