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

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. ODDS AND ENDS. A String Wanted.--Pickings anii Stealings.--Self-denial.--The Little Black Girl.--Cheer Boys, Cheer!--London K: igged-Schools.--Volunteer Teachers.--Powerlessness of Science.--Science has no Morality.--Broussa Orphans.--Only Sample Cases.--Poem on Christian Liberality.--What a Schoolboy Saw.--The Sister's Love Letters.--The Parson a-Swellin' Up.--Inviting Jesus to Tea.--Female Orphanages.--Alone in London.--Mrs. Arden's Forget fuiness.-- Precious Promise.--The Mysterious Caller.--The Zulu Arab.--Aim High.--Mr.Gough's Cigars.--Feel o' that air Muscle!--Mr. Gough and Mr. Spurgcon.--The Sick Boy.--Mr. Spurgcon at his Greatest.--The Burned Arab.--A Hard Case.--Only a Boy.--Bobby and the Breakfast.--Afraid of Being Born Again.--Be Brave, Boys.--The Christian Martyr Picture.--Japan Arabs.--Wonderful Kites.--Feastof Flags.--Feast of Dolls.--The Story-teller.--The Floating Buck.--The Arab Is Sharp and Sly.--Paddy's Speech.--Another Arab Speech.--The Speaker's Departure for the West. HEN a small boy, I puzzled a great deal about the string always found in rock-candy. It could not be accidental, that a white thread ran through the middle of each pennyworth. When the explanation was given, that on this same thread the sugar was crystalized, my c, uriosit' ended. In opening this chapter I feel the need of a string, having at hand many interesting facts, illustrations, sayings and doings of Arabs, coming under no particular head, yet not willing to deny them a place in this book. I have called them Odds and Ends, being chiefly such; mostly broken fragments from other writers. Politician-like, I have indulged in pickings and stealings; not, however, for selfish hoarding, but rather for widespread distribution. The origi...