Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 579
I sleeps in hay-barges, sir, and sometimes indry-goods boxes, and down on the steam-gratingsin winter, till the M. P.s [policemen] come along. beautiful Lodging House, put up by a generouslady for just such homeless children. It stands atNo. 287 East Broadway. A kind, experienced 546 WOLF-REARED… … Superintendent, Mr.Calder, meets him,and a matron—Mrs.Calder—takes him in hand.Her smile alone would takethe wolf-feeling out of him andmake him more of a humanchild. In his secret heart, lit-tle Pickety thinks they mustbe a very soft set, or else thatthey want to make money outof him by and by,…
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