me back to report that the "New-York boy" had
knocked over the milk-pail, and pelted the best cow, and let the cattle
in the corn, and left the young turkeys in the rain, etc, etc, was
delightful to behold.

"My dear friend, can you expect boys to be perfect at once? Didn't you
ever pelt the cattle when you were a boy?"

Mr. T. testified before the Senate Committee in 1871, that he had
transplanted to the West some four or five thousand children, and, to
the best of his knowledge and belief, very few ever turned out bad.

Whenever any of these children chanced to be defective in mind or body,
or, from any other cause, became chargeable on the rural authorities, we
made ourselves responsible for their support, during any reasonable time
after their settlement in the West.

Our present agents, Mr. E. Trott and Mr. J. P. Brace, are exceedingly
able and judicious agents, so that we transported, in 1871, to the
country, some three thousand children, at an expense, including all
salaries and costs, of $31,638.

We have also a resident Western agent, Mr. C. R. Fry, who looks after
the interests of those previously sent and prepares for future parties,
traveling from village to village. The duties of all these agents are
very severe and onerous.

It is a matter of devout thankfulness that no accident has ever happened
to any one of the many parties of children we have sent out, or to the
agents.

The following testimony was given by Mr. J. Macy, Assistant Secretary of
the Children's Aid Society, before the Senate Committee, in 1871:--

"Mr. J. Macy testified that he corresponds annually with from eight
thousand to ten thousand persons, and, on an average, receives about two
thousand letters from children and their employers. He has personal
knowledge of a great many boys growing up to be respectable citizens,
others having married well, others graduating in Western colleges. Out
of twenty-one thousand, not over twelve children have turned out
criminals, The percentage of boys returning to the city from the West is
too small to be computed, not more than six annually. From
correspondence and personal knowledge, he is thoroughly satisfied that
but very few turned out bad, and that the only way of saving large boys
from falling into criminal practices is to send them into good
country-homes. He regarded the system of sending families to the West as
one of the best features of the work of the Society. Not a family has
bee