Jerry's Family: A Story of a Street Waif of New York (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Jerry's Family: A Story of a Street Waif of New York

"Say, Missis! That youngster'll fill hisself up with water 'less you cover his mouth over, or take him home. The rain's goin' down his throat in a reg'lar stream."

It was a boy who spoke, - a boy who could not be mistaken for one on his way to or from a comfortable home, but a citizen of the streets, knowing no other landlord than the policeman who evicted him from cart, packing-case or door-way whenever he took possession of either for the purpose of obtaining a night's lodging. Not a prepossessing-looking boy, to judge from his garments, - a pair of trousers many sizes too large, which boasted of several patches sewn on with twine; a coat much too small and minus a collar; a fragment of a hat, and boots resurrected from an ash-barrel grave.

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