| Show rags and wheat itz ita aabel a age the ragman stopped slopped ti rest before a 11 randsome dwelling oil ait along wid your oll oil caril screamed the irish maid wile was washing the iho windows ye just jasi emall pox poi anil and yellow lever fever over tho the town wid your rog 91 lie ile took up tho the barrow and trundled I 1 on presently ho be camo came to a house before which a row was iras drawn drann up its a wedding wedi hog no doubt lo ho said to wile muggy lin his daughter u he ran rad along beside him bim lla la agal now yea beall tee iho he lino no aliea lles como out ont map maey RY I 1 move MOTO on oil moyo MOTO out tb tue 0 while gloved begin footman aau 11 clah jo do way dub calil I 1 yokes voke moved on oil down the broad tua sua ny by 11 erect he was a little dirty wrote bed dian his bin cart boa and lie be were a leprous spot on tle brightness TUB the stately Lou lico tho the waving trees the balcon balconied led windows filled wilu willi roses loses 11 I 1 jia ala A 1 klel s gla glaring ri a ilan os er ft b before 0 f if e eat but lo 10 did dia I 1 act leave lor for he ha thou thought glit the tight eight 0 of them pleased M gy family carr carriages inces were coming in in from tile tho park filled with white capped bonnes and delicately children there were maty many bally baby wagons gain going ho moward on iho elhady ci lii lewalk dewalk the nurses sod and tho the babies faces peeping out ont from lace laca and silk maggy who was wretchedly dressed back at them I 1 I 1 was ono one of blem cL children ildron ab elie a bald id ca eagerly gerly C come e out ont ot of this street etreo tl growled Vo leinin in ID ibo dingy gy alloy alley into which they a 86 gang of 0 boys bays were i torturing i a dog you tool joel shouted vokes joo joe a thin looking boy of thir shirleen Ih irleen iceD camo came up to liia his father and walked beside lim him hom amard his cloea clo lea were patched and his bis face ace dirty but under the dirt joo joe was not an ill looking fellow he had a beeady Louif 1 c ayo S 0 and ana it a laughing month wh what I 1 t arofo bunnia with them jail birds for eaid his father got nothing else to do said JOO joe whistling voice trundled his barrow on in except lor for abo il cesry cry of 11 1 a agizi aga I 1 joe ie lad had told old the brath frath what else clae was VM hero for him to do there were do one of 0 boys in abor alley out of 0 work boys who would have worked if i ork was to bo be found there was not a trade ncr nay sot coil t of 6 labor in the ilia groat great overcrowded city in which a boy could boa a place jou turned oil off anil alid left lis lil fath or aud aua to malio make istir way lome bilone vokes wont went on without calling I 1 1 3 eel again when lie be married marked be 40 1783 oa 03 a small email shopkeeper in f it pretty country town then than ho he thought ho bo would moyo move ioto into the city anil and make lis hii fortuno as 08 other i shrewd follows lad had done instead af u this thia to lo bad cone CODO steadily downwards in that year with twenty Ilione and other olber men la in philadelphia bo be found utterly without work vork or money nod was wad clad to go about and pick roga up from the Rat gutter 8 lie iio turned into a narrow barrow dar 1 alloy then passed through a yard in which two oa starved arvad oats were fighting over a botio bone sad and wont went late into a it I 1 etched tenement 1 he few rags raga wire were earned carried into a room and nd thrown into one corner I 1 wieh the roes ric dil did not bot lava to come in lore bore john bail lis i wio feebly put bat a the 0 said that bat twenty times every dy day LA libo no was waa a and cleanly olei toly hal bat till BR her ber scrubbing would not keep the green mildew from the wells walls ol of tle abo damp house nor cor the dirt from the childrens children 11 laces faces and clothes ol otheo aben ben they were forced to tole lie as they did she wan van hollitz holli lz a baby to ta her breast it cried paw aad then ito ita aico ws was gray and pinc bod Lud bho took it down presently for you TOO my lay lam am miel bho ho said bald illie childs sick with hunger john 11 I 1 know it mary said vokes no he was billing on oil lils ilia barrow li arrow lia his lead in Liah Liali anila ands what caa I 1 do theres lett left to pawn looking at the alio straw bea in one corper cor iier the iho bo sn on chairs the pot and pu pau k in which noth ing lad had beef beba cooked that day im hungry as baby magry g y her mother put pat lor arm about her bijj 11 it seems lard john joha obo said 11 that vi wa a when you yon ana me una joo joe Is il all willin anil able to work therea no forkl cried yokes I 1 o demoully 11 ti no eU tulin toom room any more for a poor man on gods earth I 1 4 now joe hungry aud and angry bail bad just jost reached react ica the door as his father said these words worda A sudden buddon resolution made lim him torn and ran out of ilia court theres therea one place theres always and the use anso tor for a boy to try to bo be honest when hoa has 8 startina Bt I 1 arTina bo mutt muttered cred an lour later bo be was standing in front of the house in which ilia wedding had bad taken place that afternoon the wide hall ball door had accidentally been left open ho he darted in in the hall n rack against which leaned some umbrellas and a gold beaded cane anno joo sei seized z ed ibo he latter after bob you youtie villain no ile was in tho ibo clutch of a giant of a footman who the carried lim him at arms length as it if ho he bad been oil an unpleasant bug bog into tho the library A haired pont goat kman leman and a young girl eat by the ibo lamp they were pretending to read acad but their dim dial eyes showed that they roro thinking ot of tho ilia door clear alt girl who hail bad just left her ber homo home forever ayars this young thief been a st ealin your cino tirl sirl the loot mou depositing joe on tho the floor judge Jeff roya was waa nervous and ex and ami was glad of ALY diversion tor for his bia thoughts that boyl stealing cried ill bis a daughter why ho older than our II harry arryl I 1 4 so yon wro spooling eton sto ling oling my luy loycano callo cano 6 taid aid judge you yon know joad bo be caught aut ou 1 sent cent to mohamod Mo yamen sing sine yes Yc aBir air I 1 expected them to catch mo me 1 said joe promptly anil what that on cantli possessed you yoa to 10 do it then poor child cried miss misa jeffreys the pitying tono was moro more than jo joe 0 could bear I 1 because theres no standing room for or tho the poor in this town but inja instill ill he cried I 1 fiercely 11 why b v th theres er as in lota ts goes in there this ibis win winter in e r a pur purpose oso to get their victuals and aej a lal bed J bago jeffreys st started and looked at li him theres a good deal of 0 truth in that ho be thought como hero bore I 1 boy and tell me about yourself and sea BO that you yon speak tho the I 1 truth you yon need not call a policeman last yet simon joo joe told lis ins fathers story the old gentleman roso rose anil and batt oved lis liia coat I 1 will go bud loot look into tho ilia truth oi of this ibis emily ho he said eaid 1 I want some gomo thing to employ my lay thoughts this oven ink 11 lie ho returned late lao in the craning oro ning 1 it was waa nil all truo true ho be said 11 I 1 gave them to food 0 d for tonight to night and na as for or that matter malter of 0 tho mo cane lot it pass pass colter botter tore move the lad from rom temptation than to throw him for into ibo com of thieves I 1 be balo a plan emily le be said utter after i yea ply ackt church in the memory ol of my lay brother what it if I 1 should take taka the money ond and with it send this adaily family to the there to begin lifo life snow anew surely their happiness would give giro poor edward tuoro more plea ples euro sura than any stained glass window iri odow it ho he can look back ond aad bee how 1 I nm aim trying to do honor I 1 to 0 la bia memory this thia all happened four our years ago list summer bummer judge jeffreys and his hia laughter mado made a journey to kansas anil and visited a little settlement where ns as they eind eaid they lad had same good fri onlo no Bils these friends wera named yokes they lived on a farm which thoy they had preempted pre empted and tilled filled thoro there were nelds fields of davina corn oats wheat Al icat poti potatoes toes a young apple orchard tile the grden garden moo mas full fall ot of red In luscious bw rie vegetables and a few ew dear old f flowers ll mrs V bolea 8 bad loved when ahe wits a girl it was when the judge drove up to tho the sung snug collano cot lano tagre which was cov COT cred with grape kinoe A att t girl erl iad ont to meet them while it a study young fellow just from alo field and carrying a bundle cl cf on lis his shoulder hold bold open ilia bo pato gato for or them to enter rather father it is joel aal there aloro ia 5 magry crice m ill what a comfortable for table homol anil add there id 18 mrs bolea V akca out oat lall klog I 1 will go 50 waight to the iho lam yard bibo hurried out to tho the w choro bore the iho tidy with checks as aa rosy as aa little Mag magges Maggy gys 8 was 1 to milk a motherly old cow coir 11 0 miss Jeff teyo ale be said after the be first cirit surprise and wel coio cotro were over aver 11 your father abher ims resounds a family coq or guint there was no for us ua in the otty city there was waa nothing before the children lut but hunger and crime and nd deith hero we TOO lave lard orli ork and health wo sleep Bo andly ne to tnt eat heartily bad i uj thank god dodl I 1 we ro have enough to eat cit and some to give away 11 look at lay standing there with your lather father do on tea see low lie ho holds himself i he was VM only a poor ra bicker in ia the city hero he h a a barnier at ael good goo as the best ile ho his has a cliance to abow what is ii IQ lim lica he la 13 as a citizen no he helped build the school tho the children are all ail well taught there is PO no reason why they oberla not lo le leading ia 1 tapir pir ilay day no DO dime crime such ench aa 89 geoa to browa ua tie in ia whon we lived in pratts alloy theros everything hero to 0 o 11 chako ko them and roaring and indeed miss MIB A woman outs liar boy anil and girl to have hato tue bame chance as other achl ld ren I 1 the happy talked on brent li leebay illis ibia m w bolter better than a memorial mo morial window iannino ia a alno church papa whis boroa emily to her lather father 11 gall only klows low how much betherl Lel bet torl terl ho be said revere a fly you compau ion |
