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_Children by one Mother_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--In reply to the Query, "If there be any well-authenticated instance of a woman having had more than twenty-five children," I can furnish you with what I firmly believe to be such an instance. The narrator was a relative of my late wife, a man of the very highest character in the City of London for many years, and formerly clerk to the London Bridge (Old) Water Works, a mark by which he may possibly be recognised by some of your readers. I have heard him relate, that once, as he was travelling into Essex, he met with a very respectable woman, apparently a farmer's wife, who during the journey several times expressed an anxious desire to reach home, which induced my informant at length to inquire the cause of so great an anxiety. Her reply was, "Indeed, Sir, if you knew, you would not wonder at it." When, upon his jocularly saying, "Surely she could have no cause for so much desire to reach home," she said farther, that "The number of her children was the cause, for that she had _thirty_ children, it having pleased God to give to her and her husband fifteen boys; and because they were much dissatisfied at having no girl, in order to punish their murmuring and discontent, He was pleased farther to send them fifteen girls."
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