The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them
CHAPTER XXI.
RESULTS AND FACTS OF EMIGRATION TO THE WEST.
Our First Party of Little Emigrants--A Description of the Waifs--Hard Journey in Emigrant Cars--Excitement of the Boys in the Country--Reception in the Western Village--Their Sweet Songs--The Runaway--The Placing-out of the Boys--The Lost Boy Returned--A Later Party to the West--Eagerness to Obtain the Children--Sympathy for the Boys--The Fortune of the Deaf-mute--A Hungry Child Placed in a Good Home--From the Gutter to the College--Once a New-York Pauper, now a Western Farmer..............................................pp. 246-270