"But don't be frightened, dearie," she added.

"That's only stories.

And even if it ever did happen, it couldn't again, what with railway trains and telegraphs and telephones and motor-cars and newspapers.

How could we help being found out?
Why," she continued, "so far from stealing children, there was a boy running away from school once who offered us a pound to let him join our caravan and stain his face and go with us to Bristol, where he could get on to a ship as a stowaway, as he called it; but Jasper wouldn't let him.

I wanted to; but Jasper was dead against it.