Coram Boy: Part 1

By JAMILA GAVIN

'A fine lady went to Stowe Fair. She was pregnant for the first time and, keen to know what the future held for her, she consulted an old gypsy woman.

"'Why, my dear, I do believe you will have seven babies," said the gypsy woman studying her hand. The fine lady went away and thought no more about it.

'When the time came for her child to be born, a midwife was summoned to attend the labour.

"What have we here?" she exclaimed as she delivered first one baby, then another and another."

"Oh no!" cried the young wife, remembering the gypsy's prophecy. "That can't be so!"

She wept. But sure enough, one by one, seven little baby girls were born and laid into a basket.

'The fine lady was upset fit to die.

"I don't care what the gypsy prophesied; I will only keep one baby. Take the other six away," she begged the midwife.

"Drown them in the river, but whatever you do don't tell my husband," and she pressed a purse of silver into her hand.'

Publisher: Mammoth

Price: $16.95

Age group: 12 plus years

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