A BOY WITH A HEART.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 289, 15 November 1878, Page 9

A BOY WITH A HEART.

Ihe other d.iy a bit of a boy called nt the side'door of a a good-look-ing farm residence and told such a sorrowful story that the lady of the house wab not htingy in throwing provisions into'his basket. Happening to look into the front yard after ,a few minutes, she haw the strange boy mixed up with her three or four children, aud bhe culled out; • •' ' " Boy, what arc you doing here ?'' •••''• " Fccdin' these half-starved children !"' he Womptly replied. " But tbosc are my children!" &he indignantly exclaimed. " Makes no difference to me," lie said,' as he brdkeoff another piece of cak.c. "When I find a youug 'un crying .for .bread, aud ready to swear that he liasu t tasted pie for over a year, I'm goin' to stop biihiness and brace him-up ! Haven't you got a clean waist which 1 could put on this dirty little boy I" ■ - < ■• She looked up aud down to see if,any canvassers fur the poor heathen were m sight, and then she grabbed the broom and ran the sympathetic boy out of the yard.—American paper.