The Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and Her Charge

THE LITTLE EXILES. Frontispiece
BY THE AUTHOR OF “TIMID LUCY,” “HEART AND HAND,” ETC.
NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH, 683 BROADWAY. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
EDWARD O. JENKINS, Printer & Stereotyper, No. 26 Frankfort Street.



THE Babes in the Basket; OR, DAPH AND HER CHARGE.
The evening air stole gently into a quiet room in a southern island, more than sixty years ago.
There were no casements in the wide windows; the heavy shutters were thrown back, and the moonlight poured, in long, unbroken streams, across the polished, un-carpeted floor.
Within the large pleasant room, two children were sleeping in their curtained beds, like birds in pretty cages.