Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-04-20
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THE WORST BOY IN SCHOOL.

at a robins nest that hung high up in a cher
/ ry tree, and scrceching all the time in a way
| that made one involuntarly clap his hands to
his cars.
81 am sorry to say it is" replied Deacon
Gray "The worst boy in school, too, the
one that will make you the most trouble.
Indeed don't believe you'll over be able 10
do anything with him He's as strong as a
/ giant little short fellow as he is. lie fog
ged the teacher last winter, and left him for
dead. He's the worst boy, take him all in
all, / ever saw"
HAS he parents -
/ "No his mother died when he was a
/ baby. and his father. a hard-working man,
hadn any time to see 10 him, and the child,
/ expect, had pretty hard time Of it, with
ono old maid and another for houso-k keeper.
When he was five years old, his father died,
and since that he has been tossed from pillar
to post. Hos naturally bright boy, and if
his mother bad lived he might have been
somebody for she was just one Of the most
patient loving women you ever saw in all
your life; a christian woman, if there ever
was one"
"Poor boy 90 Miss Merton spoke tender
ly. "What pity somebody don't adopt
him, take him into their home and heart
That's just what I've told father many
time, said Mrs. Gray, looking up from the
bread she was kneading. 1--WE always said
if some one would only take him in and do
by him as they would by their own born
child, it would be the salvation Of him
"Mother wanted l should take him this
spring when he was out Of place, but
told her it was too risky. If ! hadn't any
children l might perhaps, but to have such
rough. tearing, swearing, mischicyous boy
here all the time with my three girls, learning
all sorts of badness 90 that youngster there,
and he pointed 90 a two-ycar old boy who sat
on the floor, playing with pussy; 81 couldn't
risk it no way. Yet I'm sorry for him
That's what every body says continued
his wife They arc all sorry for him, but no
one Is willing TO try and reform him, and 70 it
amt done soon, iti Doe too late, for just as
sure as he goes on the way be is now, be u
be in the penitentiary before he's twcnty-one.
81 wish YOU had taken him in Miss
Merton spoke earnestly.
'Nou won't wish so a month hence, said
the Deacon, lust wait till you've seen him
cut up
But il do think so four weeks from now
will you take him Say yes please do. and
she laid her hand conddingly on his arm.
"Wel, yes if after that time you think
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