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Title: Street Arabs and gutter snipes. The pathetic and humorous side of young vagabond life in the great cities, with records of work for their reclamation
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Needham, Geo. C. (George Carter), 1840-1902
Subjects: Child welfare Poor
Publisher: Boston : D. L. Guernsey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to the advantagesof emigration, many others have been inspired by her ardorand have gathered wisdom from her experience. Both ofher sisters, Mrs. Merry and Mrs. Birt, witli their respectivefamilies, have also devoted their lives to rescuing neglectedchildren. Miss Bilbrough, Miss Rye, William Quarrier, andothers, have adopted emigration as the chief solution of thevexed problem, What shall be done for our city Arabs ?;Dr. Barnardo, who has over one thousand boys and girls inhis Homes, gladly avails himself of the open doors found inthe colonies. The gain is not altogether on the side of thechildren. The country receiving them is providing itselfwith the raw material of brain and muscle, which, througheducation and development, will, and does, give a richreturn. The preliminaries are not easily, nor hastily, gottenover, but with careful training, and patient persistent over-sight for a few years, the Arab will not fail to becomea useful citizen, rendering his quota of labor toward the
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TRANSPLANTATIONS. EMIGBATION. 285 prosperity of the Commonwealth. The writer has visitedmany parts of the Dominion, meeting with robust youngmen and blooming maidens who, through no fault of theirs,were formerly child-vagrants living amid squalor and vice inthe purlieus of English cities. I have watched the career ofsome, rescued years ago, who are now ministers, missionaries,and professional men, while the great majority help to tillthe soil. These becoming producers enrich the land oftheir adoption. And oh! what a contrast! Childrensnatched from hunger, rags, dirt, and deviltry, are cleansed,clothed, taught, trained, and placed under the fostering careof strong-armed farmers, with their tender-hearted wives, asadopt/mi*, or hired help, as the circumstances of the easewill allow. The thought, the cares, the prayers, andunselfish whole-hearted labors demanded to accomplish thismerciful work are known only to those practically devotedto the rescue and reclamation of poverty-stricken, s

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