| For might not the kitten, he thought, be more than Peggy's foundling be the other Thing disguised? |
| A foundling must be turned over upon discovery to an institution or shelter, which will receive and care for him. |
| Florens, travelling alone through the forest primeval, finds the blacksmith living in a cabin, where he has taken in a small male foundling. |
| In the years during and after the American Civil War, the care of foundling infants became an increasingly serious problem in New York City. |
| And when a family takes in a foundling or the child of a friend or relative in distress, the child usually becomes part of the family. |
| And he certainly has a lad from the foundling, of the age you mention, at his place. |
