The proud old grandmother gave it away, as soon as was born, to a woman that Fan Bray found for her.

Its mother was out of her head, and didn't know nothing.

That woman sold the baby to the women who keep it to beg with.

She's gone up the spout now, and nobody knows who the mother and grandmother are but Fan, and nobody knows where the baby is but me and Fan.

She's bleeding the old lady, and promises to share with me if I keep track of the baby and see that it isn't killed or starved to death.