| Show the orphan Emi emigrant giant while passing recently by steamer t to owen sound in in canada I 1 noticed a little boy bay standing alone I 1 knew he was english by h his is fustian clothes and little blue lp cap and going to him asked where tie lie m was is going dont know sir he replied ilva why 11 I 1 said dont you know where you are going 1 I am going to owen sound but 1 dont know where that is and where are you fr clr V wandsworth Wands worth th in m surrey sir tie he it ans are you alane a 16 ne 2 yes sir another boy and I 1 1 were sent out by the emigrant emi rant aid society to ket get a place in canala canada ile he left mea week ago and I 1 have go got lalace to learn printing have you no mother no home I 1 asked t touched cha to see so young yo ung a child in n a strange an e land alorie alone my fathers dead dea 4 s 2 ir ile ne a answered sw red and my m mothers her ni married arrie d again nga were you ever ever at school I 1 asked for he yas was so polite I 1 knew he had pat been brought up on the street had bad boys yes sir sir I 1 was as five years in the orphan asylum and nd went vent to there I 1 cheered up the little fellow for 1 I really realer pitied his friendlessness and wanted to comfort him if I 1 could have you a bibiene bibI bible eJE VJ asked at last oh yes sir 7 he said a kind lady gave me one and I 1 have hake it now I 1 spoke to 6 him alp 9 reading it and advised him buirl to make it his daily companion and never to do whit what it forbade he seemed lied to feel this was vas needful and saidee said he would you must write to your ni mother other I 1 at last said she must be anxious to hear from you yes sir ive a letter in my trunk truck waiting till I 1 get on shore he said and then he showed ine me a letter to the printer to whom he was vas going which he had kept in the folds of his cap lining my friend and 1 I struck by the boys boyi loneliness and destitution and dj admiring his boriess independence which preferred laboring laboi ing alone in a foreign land even in his chi childhood lAhood than to 0 be a burden to his mother gave him a L small s 11 sum suin each and q hearty blessing blessin 6 just juit then the boat stopped jiing nd I 1 left him guarding his box and looking for his employer who was vas to meet him next ni orning I 1 inquired for him and found mr 1 D r bid come for him hi and taken him homed home where I 1 trust he be wi will ill bo be well treated and grow 0 up t to 0 b be e useful in in the servi service and e of the orp orphans hins heLy heavenly enly protector and friend |
