THE HOME OF THE FRIENDLESS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3264, 17 December 1881, Page 4

THE HOME OF THE FRIENDLESS.

A short time since a fatherly-looking man entered at the corner of VVoodward and Jefferson Avenues and asked a pedestrian where the Home of the Friendless was, saying that he desired to adopt a child. He was given the information, but after the lapse of an hour lie had progressed only one block. He seemed to have put away several glasses of beer, and his eyes had a heavy look as .he asked of a boy : "Bub, kin you tell mo where the Friend of the Homeless is ?" The boy told him, and the stranger went up as far as the monument, wandered around by the market, and at noon was heard asking a woman : " Mad-am, kin you tell me where to find the Homes of the Homeless, as I want to adopt a orphan ?" She didn't know, and he didn't seem to care much, and he felt sleepy. When dragged out of an alley about mid-after-noon lie looked vacantly around and queried, "Iz zhis er Friendless of er Homeless, or whaz ?■' "Do you want to adopt an orphan?" asked the officer. The stranger lurched along for a whole block, deeply thinking, and then answered, " No, zur ; I want a orf un to ajopt me." He was adopted till the next session of the Central Station Court."