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32 AN INSTANCE OF TEMERITY IN'A CHILD.
public entertained such an estimation of his opinion, that it
was always received with great attention and respect. He
was also a constant attendant upon the new buildings in
Shrewsbury, erected during the last half century. He died
universally respected.
ASTONISHING INSTANCE OF TEMERITY IN A CHILD.
jA. well-dressed little girl, about 11 years of age, was.
taken before the Lord Mayor, on Monday, I)ec. 5, being
apprehended on Saturday evening, about nine o’clock,
riding up and down the streets on horseback, without any
saddle or bridle, only a rope round the horse’s head.
The constable said she would give no account of herself,
nor who the horse belonged to ; that they took her to the
Poultry Compter, and sent the horse to the Green-Yard ;
that she then told them different directions where her parents
lived, all of which they found to be false; and she still per-
sisting to deceive them, the keeper of the Compter thought
the only way to find out who she was, was. to let her go.
out the next morning, and send a person to follow her :
but she having observed the person, led him a dance of
five or six miles ; at last she went to her father’s house in
the neighbourhood of Grosvenor-square. At the solicitation
of her mother she was left, on promising to bring hei’ to
his Lordship next day. The mother of this child appeared
with her ; she had a brass collar round her neck, with a
padlock like a dog. The mother told the Lord Mayor, this,
little girl had run away so often, and played such tricks,
that they were under the necessity to keep, a collar round
her neck, with her name and place of abode ; that on Satur-
day they were persuaded to take off her collar, when she.
ran away about two o’clock, and they knew not where she
went; that they had tried to get her into the Philanthropic.
Society, but could not.
The
public entertained such an estimation of his opinion, that it
was always received with great attention and respect. He
was also a constant attendant upon the new buildings in
Shrewsbury, erected during the last half century. He died
universally respected.
ASTONISHING INSTANCE OF TEMERITY IN A CHILD.
jA. well-dressed little girl, about 11 years of age, was.
taken before the Lord Mayor, on Monday, I)ec. 5, being
apprehended on Saturday evening, about nine o’clock,
riding up and down the streets on horseback, without any
saddle or bridle, only a rope round the horse’s head.
The constable said she would give no account of herself,
nor who the horse belonged to ; that they took her to the
Poultry Compter, and sent the horse to the Green-Yard ;
that she then told them different directions where her parents
lived, all of which they found to be false; and she still per-
sisting to deceive them, the keeper of the Compter thought
the only way to find out who she was, was. to let her go.
out the next morning, and send a person to follow her :
but she having observed the person, led him a dance of
five or six miles ; at last she went to her father’s house in
the neighbourhood of Grosvenor-square. At the solicitation
of her mother she was left, on promising to bring hei’ to
his Lordship next day. The mother of this child appeared
with her ; she had a brass collar round her neck, with a
padlock like a dog. The mother told the Lord Mayor, this,
little girl had run away so often, and played such tricks,
that they were under the necessity to keep, a collar round
her neck, with her name and place of abode ; that on Satur-
day they were persuaded to take off her collar, when she.
ran away about two o’clock, and they knew not where she
went; that they had tried to get her into the Philanthropic.
Society, but could not.
The