Case 3737

account of poverty that I ask your help in this matter, though that is severe enough, but also on account of the treatment that this poor little girl has to put up with. It is not that she is systematically illtreated, but she is knocked about by the younger boy - who is allowed to strike her unchecked, and is indeed encouraged to do so by a woman who lodges in the house rent free, and to whom the man is supposed to be engaged -