ive it air. The lady said that she arose at 5.30 feeling well, and
during the forenoon had walked down a long flight of steps across a
walk to a small summer-house within the enclosure of her grounds.
Feeling a little tired, she had lain down on her bed, and soon
experienced a slight discomfort, and was under the impression that
something solid and warm was lying in contact with her person. She
directed the servant to look below the bed-clothes, and then a female
child was discovered. Her other labors had extended over six hours,
and were preceded by all the signs distinctive of childbirth, which
fact attaches additional interest to the case. The ultimate fate of the
child is not mentioned. Smith quotes Wilson, who said he was called to
see a woman who was delivered without pain while walking about the
house. He found the child on the floor with its umbilical cord torn
across.

Langston mentions the case of a woman, twenty-three, who, between 4 and
5 A.M., felt griping pains in the abdomen. Knowing her condition she
suspected labor, and determined to go to a friend's house where she
could be confined in safety. She had a distance of about 600 yards to
go, and when she was about half way she was delivered in an upright
position of a child, which fell on the pavement and ruptured its funis
in the fall. Shortly after, the placenta was expelled, and she
proceeded on her journey, carrying the child in her arms. At 5.50 the
physician saw the woman in bed, looking well and free from pain, but
complaining of being cold. The child, which was her first, was healthy,
well nourished, and normal, with the exception of a slight ecchymosis
of the parietal bone on the left side. The funis was lacerated
transversely four inches from the umbilicus. Both mother and child
progressed favorably. Doubtless the intense cold had so contracted the
blood-vessels as to prevent fatal hemorrhage to mother and child. This
case has a legal bearing in the supposition that the child had been
killed in the fall.

There is reported the case of a woman in Wales, who, while walking with
her husband, was suddenly seized with pains, and would have been
delivered by the wayside but for the timely help of Madame Patti, the
celebrated diva, who was driving by, and who took the woman in her
carriage to her palatial residence close by. It was to be christened in
a few days with an appropriate name in remembrance of the occasion.
Coleman met an instance in a mar