, 1880-06-17
A New York Orphan.

one of the little lamps plcKeu up III
.,o streets of New York by Whitelaw
De- Poid and sent West to find home was
.Jonted by a Detroit family about two
s"oprbs " ago, and ere this is published
A. Reid has received big postal card
onnouncing that his dear lamb has gone
West IVES, to fight the Indians, and that he
nsajnt mind about sending on another
to take his place
This New York lamb was l3 years
old He said so at the depot on his ar
r;val and half an hour later he reiter
ated the statement at the house, and
added:
"And If you don't believe it, then
call me liar That's the sort of a
spring gun am, and don't you forget it. !"
They didn't forget it. He gave them
no chance to. He ate with his fingers,
wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and gave
the family to understand before supper
WAS over that he didn't come West to
have his hair combed or his face washed
as regular business. On his first even
ing he slipped out, had three fights and
stole dog, and when hnnted up he was
about to take bis beer in saloon. s.N1
The family expected to wrestle with
the boy for awhile, and they didn't sit
down on him until it become painful
necessity. During his first week he
stole So in money, gold chain, revol-
yer, and pair Of earrings, and he got
drunk twice When reasoned with and
asked to do better, be tookaa fresh chew
of plug tobacco and replied
"Oh you Michigan folks are too softl
If feller can't have q good time, what's
the use of being an orphang se /. ca
On Monday of the second week he
. sold the family dog to stranger for a
quarter, threw the saw and the ak into
the alley, and when locked up in closet
he tore a Sunday coat to pieces. It'was
thought best to have policeman talk TO
him, and was called in, He put on his
fercest look, and lectured the lamb for
fifteen minutes, but assoon ss he stopped
for breath the young sinner replied 4
"Now see here, old buttons, you are
wasting time I know my little gait, l
do, and if you think I've come to vii
lage like this to be buffed by anybody,
you've missed your trainp
He was taken to Sunday school by
the hard He hadn't been there nalf
an hour " hen he was taken out by the
collar. He seemed anxious to punch
the head Of every good little boy within
half mile of him, and he told the
teacher of his class that when she could
stuff Moses in the bulrushes down him
it would be after she had beached ou5
her freckles. They gave him Sunday
school book to fit his case, but he fitted
it to crack in the sidewalk on his way
home.
When moral suasion had no effect on
the wicked youth, his guardian tried the
rod He was bigger than the boy, and
he walloped him, but; within three hours
two of the nuts were taken of his buggy
and thrown away. There was Q second
seance in the woodsbSed, and before dark
awindow glass worth eight dollars was
broken.
That orphan was faithfully and duly
and persis'ently wrestled with. He was
coaxed and battered. Heswass licked
and reasoned with Ambition, graft
tude, fear and. avarice were alike ap-
pealed to in turn, but as he was the first
day so lie was the last A few days ago
he was told that he would be sent to the
reform school at Lansing, if there was
any further trouble with him, That
night he stole $5 of the cook, butcher
knife from the pantry, pie from the
sideboard, and departed from the house,
leaving on his bed note reading as
follows: --,,,,,
"This thown ar no place for N.
York orfun I'm goin out on tho
planes to fte Ipjuns. 1t will be useless
to foller me, fur can't be took Alive p
Detroit Free Press.