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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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seven hundred scholars in the schools. Night afternight the little services were continued. Fathers andmothers became interested. Soon a hall was built for adultsto meet in ; there were numerous conversions, and theenthusiasm of a genuine revival was felt in the neighborhood.Gradually other means of usefulness were added to theoriginal work. Schools for secular instruction were opened,sewing-classes were established, a system of weekly dinnersprovided for the destitute, and other machinery of an exten-sive mission set in operation. Dr. Barnardo has himself told the incident which wasmainly instrumental in shaping hisOwn course, and leadinghim to abandon other plans for this work. One evening,after the ragged-school, a little boy loitered behind, andbegged for leave to sleep in the room. Conversation broughtout the fact that he had neither father nor mother, and thathe was in the habit of sleeping out in the streets where hecould find a nestling-place, and that the night before he had
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THE STREET BOYS BED. It All D EXPERIENCES. 207 slept in a hay-cart. The talk of this tiny lad of ten yearsopened at that moment quite a new sense of the appallingdestitution to be found in the streets of wealthy London.Dr. Barnardo was then comparatively inexperienced. Arethere many such boys sleeping out? he asked; and thelittle fellow replied: O, yes, sir — lots, eaps on em —morn I could count! He took the boy home, sat himdown at his bachelor table, and let him talk under thenovel inspiration of coffee and a warm fireside. It was a sadstoiy he had to tell — how mother had died, and he had livedon a barge with Swearing Dick, who beat him cruelly, butat last enlisted, in a drunken fit, when the boy ran away ;and how since he had picked up anything he could in thestreets. Then the conversation turned to brighter things.They talked of heaven, and Our Father there. But,sir, — and then suddenlycame a look of earnest inquiryinto the childs face,--will Swearin Dick be there? andwil

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