Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 51 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 51: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be the middle of a longer narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes a charitable institution that accepts orphans of all denominations from anywhere in the world, requiring only that they be human. It details the institution's operations: a nurse receives infants without making inquiries, over 115 infants were admitted within eighteen days about two months prior, they are sent out to wet nurses until ages three or four (currently numbering three thousand), and they arrive wearing labels around their necks with their names inscribed.
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A MONTHs TOUR st charity for the reception of orphans’ of -every*denomination, from any part of the globe.* = They need no otitr recommendation to be admitted here, but to bear tne form ‘of the human fpecies. There is a nurfe: appointed to receive them, whotis not au- thorifed-to make any enquiries whatever. 4 ‘Norlefs than:an hundred and fifteen: infants» “were received, about two months ago; in: ‘the coutfe of eighteen days. They are put out to ‘nurfé till they are three or four years of age) the number of which at this time is: thrée’tHoufand. They are generally brought here wake Jabels' rdund their netks; on’ whith’ their names are inferibeds et comicbooks.com