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I never heard that any one was asked what had been done with the funds ; but I have already furnished the account that ought to have been rendered . XIII . -- In transitu . One night , near twelve o'clock , a shrewd tradesman , looking out of his shopdoor before he turned into bed , heard a cry which proceeded from a bundle on the pavement . This he discovered to be an infant wrapt in a potato-sack . He was quick enough to observe that it had been deftly laid over a line chiselled across the pavement to the corner of his house , which line he knew to be the boundary between his own parish of St. Simon Magus and the adjacent parish of St. Bartimeus . He took note , being a business man , of the exact position of the child 's body in relation to this line , and then conveyed it to the workhouse of the other parish .