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Show STILL WAITING FOR THE BOY. A sad reminder of the great b!jz zard is the mental condition of a New York man living in the fashionable part of Lexi.igton avenue not far from Thirtyseventh street. This man had an only son, who went out in a boat the; day before be-fore the blizzard came for a sail down the bay. The boat was never heard of after that and the j oung man very probably was lost. Yet the father did not lose hope. Day after day he waited for news of his son's reset. He hoped that some vessel had picked the little boat up, or that by some other means the boy's life was saved. The body not having been found the man could not believe the boy dead. For weeks he waited to hear news, but none came. Under the load of grief his mind almost gave way, and to this day the old man, whose mind is now almost a wreck, expects at the least noise in the block to hear that his son has been found. If there is a sound of hurrying feet on the pavement outside he will get up to see if there is not a messenger boy coming with news from his son. All through the night he wakes at the slightest noise, and his first inquiry is whether the news of his son's rescue has come. Cor. Baltimore American. |