The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-19

tul. You'll soon learn more, and by the time you
are twenty you'll be worth taking into wholesale
premium; and # you MIND what you are about you
make someb9dy yet But keep your eY es open, old
mamma, shall get on somehow or other; only lust
Jet me have few pounds 70 pay my way. Obi
d asve Just s heard % & OF place and I'm TO go on Mon,
father, and Alice, and all of them. mean TO be
1. Your afeciionate son, DIoK."
"Here is a trouble for an anxious motherln l
exclaimed to my husband after had read the
letter aloud TO him,
"what trouble can there be ?" he asked. at
ls not exactly the position should have wished
for him, but 1t is his own choice 1t was said
when was boy that Robinson Crusoe' made
the runaways of a family. Now | think the
book which you gave Dick on his last birthday,
The Early Footsteps OF Great Men, must nave
influenced him. 1t is quite certain that | could
not have paid any one OF what appear 10 me the
extrayagant premiums demanded, and SO it is
best as ii is.n
"But about paying the money for his living?"
/ asked.
''Ah! that's to be considered. First, must
get a coherent letter from the Armstrong; and
when know the particulars shall be better
able to judge"
A few days, and the post brought the desired
| communication. Dick had given their names
| Us a reference to a house doing an active busi-
| ness in the drug trade at the east end of Lon
| don. All they hal said when applied to was,
| that they knew his parents, and that he was
| an honest Lao. Richard had taken bedroom,
| tor which he was going to pay five shillings
| week, but they did not know how. he was TO
| manage about his food. As for his Sundays,
| they had given him an invitation to spend with
| them
This, though to me very unsatisfactory,
| was obliged to be content with, and a whole
fortnight passed without our hearing anything
| further. Then came the tollowing;--
| "No 4, NEW ROAD, MILE END, LoNDoN.-My
| Dear Mother and Fatner:-l am IN very comfort
able lodgings, with nice Old lazy and her son. who
grub the last fortnight but this is very uno
able, for used to forget all about II, so that last
Sunday morning got up and found nothing to eat.
couldn't stand this, you know, but Mrs. Reed was
| voIy kind, and gave me some breakfast, and after
that went to HoInsey, and spent the day with
young Armstrong and his family told him OF my
adventure. he said the best way was to give Mrs
Reed so much week 10 find me In everything
except olnner ana washing. Dinner l get at an
eaIne-house near the business This costs me nine
pence every day. So when | got nome at neht |
asked Eer aboutit. she said she would talk aoout
it in the morning as she liked 10 keep the Sabbath
IS day of rest from worldly matters l tell you
this, mother, because / know you will like TO hear
that am not among heaihens. Last night when j
came home, BlTs. Reed said she had thought over
the matter, and il likea 70 i've as they did she
hngs week. Now, my dinner will cost me perhaps
five and slxpence week., and my washing q
\ shllhng week. ana should like about a shilling
z a week for pocket money for, you know, mother
\ a fellow doesn't know what he wants exactly to
jpenny-sO that makes seventeen and sixpencs
4 week, against which have only X shilings. Now
il my father would allow me the difference for few
altogether. MY work is rather hard, but think
| shall get TO know a great deal more than ii hat
gone out as swell. 1t you viii oniv give me
| twelvemonth to MAKE the experiment IN shall do.
| The letter contained q good deal about home
affairs, not at all interesting TO the outer world
but the business matter contained in it wal
| practica; that | could see.
II can do that very WE'LL" Arthur said. "It il
not so much as have been paying lately fo
his schooling; but there is one temptation
mean to shield him from. | snail remit thu
money to Mrs. Reed for his board either in ad
vance OF at the end of each month, as she like
best, and shall not leave it to him to pay o
make away with 1T"
''You are hard upon Dick, Arthur said.
''No so, Mary. Richard has hitherto had NJ
command OF money, and there are so many petit
| temptations which dog the steps of youth tirs
away from home, that do not mean to put it il
his power to deprive Mrs. Reed of her just due
and in that payment | snail include also his
| washing blln
"But YOU Will send him some other money be
sides the shilling q week he asks torY
ITO give him more than two shiings a week
/ do not think would be wse | know 1t is said
10y some parents that to stint a boy in money i!
| TO tempt him to be dishonest. / do not tnint
so. l do not yet know if Dick has money be
longing to his employers passing through hi
hands or not, or whether he has any chance o
getting at it but this feel, that if a boy will
even q shilling week Is tempted at ALL he WOul
be equally so ii he were at liberty to spend
pound week, and perhaps in a greater degree
= Hitherto we have had no opportunity OF judgin
l the strength of the right principles we have bot
endeavored to inculCate. l would 60 up to Lon
don, but Armstrong writes that it is better not.
I All the necessary arrangements were 500
| made. | slipped in sovereign, and sent a Cak
= and other little things which l knew Dick wa
partial to- Also did not forget a couple {
v fowls and piece of bacon for good Mrs. Reed
D | who hoped would be q mother TO my boy, an
so told her in long letter, to which in due tim
4 she replied.
ITO be continued in our neIt issue