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infants, whose mother and all they had were burnt at the dreadful fire at Kirton, and hope the good ladies for Gods sake will bestow something on the poor famishing, starving infants. In goes the maid with this affecting story to the ladies while our grandmother keeps pinching the children to make them cry and the maid soon returned with half a crown and some good broth, which he thankfully received, and went into the courtyard to sit down to eat them, as perceiving the gentlemen were not at home. He had not long been there before they came, when one of them accosted him thus: Where did you come from, old woman? From Kirton, please your honours where the poor unhappy mother of these helpless infants was burnt in the flames and all he had consumed.—D--n you said one of them, there has been more money collected for Kirton than ever Kirton was worth. However they gave the old grandmother a shilling, commiserating the hard case of her and her poor helpless infants, which he thankfully received, pretending to go away; but the gentlemen were hardly got into the house, before their ears were suddenly
