The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
4 NeW York orphan.

Que of the little lambs picked up In the
streets of New fork by Whitelaw Reid
and sent West to find home was adopt
ed by Detroit family about two months
ago, and ere this Is published Mr.. Reid
has received big postal card announcing
tlias hls dear lamb has gone West to fight
the Indians, and that he needn't mind
about sending on another to take his
place.
This New York lamb was IS years old.
He said so at the depot on his arrival, an3
half an hoIir later he reiterated the state
ment at the house, and adued
And II you don't believe II, then call
me a liar. That's the sort of spring
gin am, and don't you forget it,
They didn't forget it. He gave them
no ciiAucs to. BE ate with his fngers,
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 cornbed or his face washed as
a regular business. On his first evening
he slipped out, had three fights and stole
dog, and when hunted up lie was about to
tdAc MS UEcT III SHIOOns
The family expected 10 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 $3 In money.
gold chain, revolver, aud u pair of
earrings, and he got drunk twice. When
reasoned with and asked to do better, he
took fresh chew of aplug of tobacco and
replied
"Oh you Michigan folks are too soft
If a teller can't have good time, what's
the use of being all orphan ?"
Oh Monday of the second week he sold
The family dog to a stranger tor quarter,
threw the saw mud ak into the alley. and
when locked mp in a closet he tore Sun
day coat to pieces. It was thought best
TO have policeman talk TO him, and was
called in. He put on his flercest look, and
lectures! the lamb for fifteen minutes. but
as soon "a he stopped for breath the young
sinner replied
'tNow see here, old buttons, you are
wasting time know my little gait,
do, ami Ii you think I've come to viii
laGc like :his to be butfcd by anybody,
you've missed your train -
He was taken to Sunday school by the
hand. He hadn't been there halt an hour
when he was taken out by the collar. He
seemed anxious to punch the head OF every
good little boy within halt mile of him,
and he told the teacber of his class that
when she could stuff Moses in the bulrushes
down him it would be after she had
bleached out her freckles. They gave him
Sunday school book TO fit his case, but
he fitted il TO crack in the sidewalk on
his way home.
When moral suasiou had no effect on
the v icked youth, his guardian tried the
roll. He was bigger than the boy, and he
walloped him, but within three hours two
OF the nuts were taken off his buggy and
thrown away. There was second seance
in the wOOdshed, and before dark a
window glass worth eight dollars was
br oxen.
That orphan was faithfully and duly
and presistcntly wrestied with. He was
coaxed and flattered. He was licked and
reasoned with. Ambition, gratitude, fear
ana aVarice were alike appealed to in turn.
but as he was the first dayso he was the
!ast. A few days ago he was told thst he
would be sent to the reform school at
Lansing, iftheTe was any further trouble
with him. That night he stole $5 of the
cook. butcher knife from the pantry, n
pie from the sidcboarl. and departed from
the house, leaving on his bed note read
Ing as follows
''rhis thOwn ar no place for New
York orftln. TIN goin' out on the planes
to ffte Injuns. It will be useless TO foller
me, fur can't be took Alive .''-Desroft
Free Press.