Miss Ophelia could bring to bear failed to make the child own that she ever had a mother or had ever been born.

“Have you ever heard about God, Topsy?” asked Miss Ophelia, but the child had no answer. She didn’t know what the good lady meant.

“Do you know who made you?”

“Nobody, as I know on,” replied the child; “I ’spect I jest growed.”

The poor child knew nothing but how to “fetch” water, wash dishes and rub knives, so she told Miss Ophelia, and