"I know she is a foundling; but she must have had a beginning somewhere." "Of course she had; and a most peculiar one.

She was found on the Long Sands.

That is a place three miles from Wavertree on the sea-shore, where wrecks often come in.

John Kane, one of the carters, found her, and Mrs.Kane took her home.

Then Aunt Amy, who is dead, fancied her and adopted her.