In one instance, a child left to itself, ran out of the hedge by the road-side; I was fortunately able to stop, and found the child, unconscious of its escape, raising its hands to the reins of the horse.

And on another occasion, my horse threw a child down, and I had but just time to pull up, and prevent the wheels from passing over the infant's head." And it was stated in a Bristol paper, that in the short space of _one fortnight, seven_ children were taken to the infirmary of that city so dreadfully burnt that four of them died.

Numerous cases of this kind are to be found in the public prints, and hundreds of such accidents occur which are not noticed in the papers at all.

Many children, again, strolling into the fields, fall into ponds and ditches, and are drowned.

So numerous, indeed, are the dangers which surround the infant poor, as to make a forcible appeal to the hearts of the pious and humane, and to call loudly on them to unite in rescuing this hitherto neglected part of the rising generation from the evils to which they are exposed.
It is much to be regretted that those persons who most need employment should be the last to procure it; but such is the fact, for there are so many obstacles thrown in the way of married persons, and especially, those with a family, that many are tempted to deny that they have any children, for fear they should lose their situations, though it is certainly an additional stimulus to a servant to behave orderly, when he knows that he has others to look to him for support.
Shall I close this appeal for the necessity of educating the infant poor by another and weightier argument?
They are _responsible_ and _immortal_ beings.