account of them dear children! Walk in sir; walk in, pray, Mr.

Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that

might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means

'Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, Mrs. Mann,'

inquired Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane, 'to keep the parish

officers a waiting at your garden-gate, when they come here upon

porochial business with the porochial orphans? Are you aweer,

Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and