Besides which, she had an inexhaustible fund of sympathy for the babies.

She was never without one in her arms.

Three mothers, who had died on the road, left their children to her care.

And it was wonderful and pitiful to see the delicately nurtured girl, making all kinds of efforts to secure little necessaries for the children she had elected to care for.
"The Holy Mother helps me," she said to, Antonia.

"She makes the poor little ones good, and I am not very tired." At San Felipe they were joined by nearly one hundred men, who also brought word that a fine company were advancing to their aid from Mississippi, under General Quitman; and that two large cannon, sent by the people of Cincinnati, were within a few miles.