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    leap over a few more years ; Gladys marries the boy whose good offices led to her rescue

    from from the thft streets atrpftts- and anr . our r » nr authoress suitTiorfsss closes closes her pages with the , genial wish that ' the histories of all VlJL"little »/ waifs II KJ " ended ~ W A as t happ % il '

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    which is not only full of the adventures they so highly prize but possesses the

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    with illustrations by W . J . Hennessy . There is much force in the author ' s remark in the characters preface , that become , * should unreal a story ; but be , if fiction true , , we at s least hare one the -half joys the and interest sorrows would of the disappear persons as whose the actions create the taleand appreciate the reality of the ' Hence in these stones

    the told 1 » J 1 C : i characters ; ori ilXfcX g inall > LiCA y are O for » L O changed Kj 1 Sir M . OiIM , Samuel Ks \ A , } we the L 11 C 's groundwork glUUllU own grandsons nUllV in Jill . each C , we ^ - « . Vy case are «*»»~» ia JI assured K 3 fact 1 OV scene V , ) that not * . \^ U , fiction iJl ^ even UAVJ'XA . . if The jk the . Ap-. uf - first names * -. — -tale of , .

    faithfull street * Bummer dog y serving and in San his Francisco the Poor butcher Acquaintance on whom during a , . ' butcher the takes day the takes he reader trots pity off to . California at Bummer evening ' ; s Bummer with peculiarity the being piece is that a of hungry , meat after iven to him for his and disappears the back" streetsThe regularity of this

    habit g leads his master supper to follow himand at last among he discovers that his . destination is a wretched building uuHUiug . , where Wilde ; , , huddled jtiuiu . uAt 3 « J . up u | j in in some nt / iiio , shav cuiav ings jlij ^ o , , lies aiud a nioiujv sick dog uu ^ , to vkj whom nnuiu this who faithful A » tvi . u . u « friend . ** v » . v carries

    his in mute own food admiration . Most said readers 4 Don will ' t agre tallc e to with me about Bummer Ch ' ristian s master s a , 'ter who this , after Bummer watching beats the scene them |

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1883, page 1192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121883/page/16/