mediately and let me know. He likes to go about
with me, but not when it is very cold; I send him to stay in the house,
out of the cold. When it is warm day, he likes to go about with me.
Sometimes he goes to town. He pets the colt every day; sometimes he
waters the colt and feed some corn himself.'"

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THE HUNGRY BOY IN A HOME.

"In our first Report there was an account of a little boy, whom our
visitor, Rev. Mr. Smith, found under a cart in the street, gnawing a
bone which he had picked up for his breakfast. He had a good-natured
little face, and a fine, dark eye. Mr. S. felt for him, and said, 'Where
do you live, my boy?'

_'Don't live nowhere.'_ 'But, where do you stay?' He said a woman had
taken him in, in Thirteenth Street, and that he slept in one corner of
her room. His mother had left him, and 'lived all about, doin' washin'.'
Mr. Smith went around with him to the place, and found a poor, kind
woman, who had only a bare room and just enough to live, and yet had
sheltered and fed the wretched little creature. 'She was the poorest
creature in New York,' she said, 'but somehow everything that was poor
always came to her, and while God gave her anything, she meant to share
it with those who were poorer than she.' The boy was sent to
Pennsylvania, and the following is the letter from his mistress, or
rather friend, to the poor mother here. It speaks for itself. May God
bless the kind mother's heart, which has taken in thus the outcast
child!

"'H----, PENN., Dec 8, 1855.

"'Mr. Q----: I have but a moment to write this morning. You wish to know
how Johnny, as you call him, gets along. We do not know him by that
name. Having a William and a John before he came here, we have given him
the name of Frederick; he is generally called Freddy. He is well, and
has been, since I last wrote to you. He is a very healthy boy, not
having been sick a day since he came here. His feet trouble him at times
very much; they are so tender that he is obliged to wear stockings and
shoes all the year. We do not expect his feet will ever bear the cold,
as they were so badly frozen while on the way from the city here. But do
not imagine that he suffers much, for he does not. When his boots or
shoes are new, he complains a good deal; but after a little he gets
along without scarcely noticing it. To-day our winter's school
commences. Sam