Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 829
turn of mind, and plumbing appeals to him as agood trade. If so, he is put into the class inplumbing under the instruction of a man who notonly knows plumbing, but who knows how tu 1106 THE BOY PROBLEM—HOW ONE INSTITUTION SOLVES IT [Oct., teach it. For three hours a day he works at his He learns… … A HALF-COMPLETED HOUSE BUILT BY BOYS. Now he is a part of a family, too, and he goesto live in one of the Village cottages where thereare twenty boys, including himself, and a house-mother always—sometimes a house-father too. work is all-absorbing. Not only is he taught plumb-ing, from the ground…
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