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It was full of bright gold and silver coins and valuable papers. In one she found a box which she had never opened before. One day she was looking over the contents of the captain's chests which had been saved from the wreck. He and the old lady were very happy together, but she worried for fear she should be too poor to take care of him. During the whole time he had been with the ruffians he had not been washed, and he seemed to enjoy scrubbing off the smoke of the dirty camp. She placed him in a bath tub filled with nice warm water, and no child ever enjoyed a bath so much as he. He was carried back to the old lady, and great was her joy at seeing him again, and he was as much pleased as she. He was so dirty that they hardly knew him, but a pink calico apron which the old lady had made for him was the means by which he was known. The search was continued for several weeks, when the ruffians were found in a distant part of the country, and with them the stolen child. They went to the place, but they found only the burnt coals in the spot where their campfires had been. They knew that a party of ruffians had been encamped in the forest nearby. The neighbors were aroused, and all the neighbors went in search of the child. Someone had entered the house and kidnaped him. She was gone but a few minutes, but on her return, the baby was gone. She went to a neighbor's and left the baby sleeping in his crib. This was a great deal for a poor woman of her age to do but she remembered how kind his mother had been to her, and she denied herself many comforts for his sake, and loved him and cared for him as her own child. Brown was dead she felt very badly, and went and took the orphan baby to her home. For this the old lady was very thankful, and said she hoped she should sometime be able to repay Mrs. Brown was very kind to her, and took care of her by day and night till she was well again. Once when she was sick and could not work, Mrs. She earned her living by doing fine sewing for wealthy ladies. These were all that were left to the captain's wife of her husband's great fortune and she always kept them, though she did not consider them of much value. She was very poor, though she had once been the wife of a rich sea captain who was lost, with all his crew, when his ship was driven upon the rocks in a storm. Brown heard of it, she was so overcome with grief that she died in a few days, and their baby, only a year and a half old, was left alone in the world. After reading the story, students are asked to provide a summary. This double-sided handout features the short story 'The Stolen Child,' originally published in 1912 by Hurst and Company.

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