A CANDIDATE canvassing1 his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in

　　a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted2 a kiss upon the Baby's clammy

　　muzzle3. Rising, he saw a Man, who laughed.

　　"Why do you laugh?" asked the Candidate.

　　"Because," replied the Man, "the Baby belongs to the Orphan4

　　Asylum5."

　　"But the Nurse," said the Candidate - "the Nurse will surely relate

　　the touching6 incident wherever she goes, and perhaps write to her

　　former master."

　　"The Nurse," said the Man who had laughed, "is an inmate7 of the

　　Institution for the Illiterate-Deaf-and-Dumb."