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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Anna Loring
To Miss Anna Loring. New York, December 26, 1843.
I had a very happy Christmas, and I will tell you how it happened.
The watchmen picked up a little vagabond in the street, who said he had neither father nor mother, and had lost his way. He said his mother used to get drunk and sleep in the streets, but that he had not seen her for five years. They put him in the Tombs, not because he had committed any crime, but because he had nowhere to go. He was about ten years old. I applied to the orphan asylum, but he was older than their rules allowed them to admit.
The poor child worried my mind greatly.
On Christmas morning the asylum ladies sent me five dollars and a pair of nice boots for him. Mr. Child went to the Tombs for him, and after a good deal of difficulty found him and brought him home.
He was in a situation too dirty and disgusting to describe.
I cut off his hair, put him in a tub of water, scrubbed him from head to foot, bought a suit of clothes, and dressed him up. Yo
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Anna Loring
To Miss Anna Loring. Wayland, December 10, 1857.
I wanted very much to introduce to you a baby I met in the cars.
She was a fat little thing, not two years old, but as quick as a steel-trap.
She was on the opposite side of the cars, but insisted upon trying to stretch her short fat arm across to me, with her hand open, repeating, How do?
I am pretty well, said I.
How do you do?
Mart (smart), was her quick reply.
And this scene she wanted to enact every five minutes, to the great amusement of those around her. At last a little boy came in, about a year older than herself, and was placed on the seat behind her. Feeling the necessity of keeping up the character of her sex for propriety, she took a good deal of trouble to get at him, and push him, saying, You do 'way!
You do 'way!
The boy, who seemed to be as timid as she was t mart, shrunk himself up as close as possible, probably having a prophetic sense of the position it becomes his sex to assume, if they regard their own
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)