he boys within. He accused some of the larger boys.
They denied, "No sir--no: it couldn't be us; because we was in the
liquor-shop on the corner; _we ain't got nowhere else to go to!"_]

The girls, however, were his great torment, especially when they stoned
their spiritual guides; these, however, he eventually forwarded into the
Cottage place Industrial School, which sprang from the Meeting, and
there they were gradually civilized.

For real suffering and honest effort at self-help, he had a boundless
sympathy; but the paupers and professional beggars were the terror of
his life. He dreaded nothing so much as a boy or girl falling into
habits of dependence. Where he was compelled to give assistance in
money, he has been known to set one boy to throw wood down and the other
to pile it up, before he would aid.

His more stormy philanthropic labors have been succeeded by calmer
efforts among a delightful congregation of poor German children in
Second Street, who love and revere him. When he needs, however, a little
refreshment and intoning, he goes over to his Cottage-place
Reading-room, and sits with or instructs his "lambs!"

His main work, however, is in the "office" of the Children's Aid
Society, which I have described above. Though a plain half-Quaker
himself, he has all the tact of a _diplomat,_ and manages the
complicated affairs of poverty and crime that come before him with a
wonderful skin, getting on as well with the lady as the street-vagrant,
and seldom ever making a blunder in the thousand delicate matters which
pass through his hands. When it is remembered that some seventeen
thousand street-children have passed through that office to homes in the
country, and that but one lawsuit has ever occurred about them (and that
through no mistake of the Society), while numbers of bitter enemies
watch every movement of this charity, it will be seen with what
consummate judgment these delicate matters have been managed. Besides
all this, he is the guide, philosopher, and friend of hundreds of these
young wayfarers in every part of the country, sustaining with them an
enormous correspondence; but, as sympathy, and advice, and religious
instruction on such a gigantic scale would soon weary out even his
vitality, he stereotypes his letters, and, by a sort of pious fraud,
says to each what is written for all. It is very interesting to come
across the quaint, affectionate words and characteristic expressions of
this de