Mrs.Hogan did not appear to be able to understand why I wanted a baby-especially for so limited a period,--but probably concluded that if I would take good care of it and would pay well for it, the matter was my own affair, for she soon came and said, that if I wanted a baby, I'd come to the right place.

Then she began to consider what one she would let me have.

I insisted on a young one--there was already a little baby at our house, and the folks there would know how to manage it.
"Oh, ye want it fer coompany for the ither one, is that it ?" said Mrs.
Hogan, a new light breaking in upon her.

"An' that's a good plan, sure.
It must be dridful lownly in a house wid ownly wan baby.

Now there's one--Polly--would she do ?" "Why, she can run," I said.