The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-03
A New York Boy at the West.

We make the following extract from
Mr.. Charles l.. Braces article, entitled
"Wolf-reared Children, in 81. Nicholas.
" Pickety'' is a New York street arab
who has been induced to leave the Bows
Lodging House and "Go Vest;
Pickety at first thought he might be
sent where bears would hunt him, or
Indians catch him, and that he would
earn very little and would lose all the
sights and fun of New York, so he was
almost afraid to 90; but, on hearing all
about it, and seeing that he would nev-
er come to much in the city, AID espe-
cially hoping to get more education in
the West, and by and by to own bit of
land for himself. he resolved to Join
party under one of the western agents
of the Childrcn's Aid Society and 20 to
Kansas.
We have not time nor space to follow
his fortunes there: everything was
strange to him, and he made queer
work of his duties in a farmers house;
but the strangest thing of all to him
was to be in a kind, Christian family
He wondered what made them all so
good, and he began to think he would
like to be as they were, and most of all
like the One he had heard of in the
Lodging House meeting.
He was careful to write to his New
York friends about his new home, and
here is one of the letters received from
him, after he had been in the West few
months:
"MR. MAcY-Dear SIR: write You i'f ~
few lines hoping you are in good healtkN
present, and not forgetting the rest of the gen
tlemen that remember in the Chidren's Aid
Society. am getting on splendid with my
studies at school, and send you my monthly
report, but please return it, as want to keep
all my reports. have good place and like
my home, and am glad | came.
The first time | rode a horse bareback, he
slung me off over his head and made me sick
for Il week also had diphtheria but am all
right again and in good health, and can rideOr
gallOp horse as fast as any man in town.
When summer comes will learn to pillow and
SOW, and do farmers work. | will get good
wages out here. 1t is Il nice country, for there
is no Indians. or bears, or other wild animals
-'cept prairie-wolves, and you can scare them
with anything.
here and have plenty of fun. have fun with
the mules, horses, pigs and dogs. No peggng
stones at rag-pickers or tripping up or
tramps in the Bowery or City Hall Park.
Tell 'Banty' | send him my best respects
Tell him it is from Pickety,' and he will know
me.
'yi "Yours truly, -"
He learned his farm work fast and
soon made himself very useful; the next
winter he went to school again, and be-
came a very good scholar. He knew
how to make money, too: when the far
mer gave him calf, or lamb, ora
sheep, he took good care of it, and by
and by sold it, and bought other stock
with the proceeds, and in this way,
after few years, he had saved con-
siderable sum. With this he bought
some Government land, y on which he
built a shanty; and so he began to be q
Q" landed proprietor" .'I
lie was no longer g Pickety," but had
Christian name, and for his last name
took that of the kind people to whom
he felt like a son. He had acquireda
fair education, too; and the neighboS
liked and respected the New YORK
orphan" as they called him. He had
quite lost his wolfish nature by TINS
time, and now had a new one, which
had come to him from the Good Being
he had heard of in the lodging house.
through the civilizing, Christian mflu,
ences that had been thrown AROUND
him. And here we will leave hiH-'
thriving farmer on his own land.