A BOY'S DEVOTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1752, 28 January 1888, Page 3

A BOY'S DEVOTION.

An incident occurred recently m one of the Police Courts of Chicago, ia which a little street boy* devotion to his drunken mother wag tonchlnqly thowu.

A woman had been picked np m a ota'e of intoxication and carried to a Polios Station, where she apeat the nlt>ht. The next morning she was arraigned before the magistrate. Clinging to her tatterad Kown were two children, a boy and girl, the foroser about seven years of age, but made prematoreiy old by the hatdrhips of hi* wretched life.

" Fiva dollar <s and costs," said the jud(je, sternly. " Seven dollars and sixty cents In all."

Im'antly the the little fellow started up, and taking hi* sister by the arm, he orled ont, " Oome on ; we've got to git that money or mam '11 have to go to goal. Jest wait, Mr Judge, and we'll git It I"

The children harried out of the courtroom, and going from store to store solicited contributions to keep " Mann from going to gaol," the boy bravely promising every giver to return the money as soon as he oould earn it. Sooa he oame raaning back into the room, And laying a handful of small change on the magistrate's desk, exolaimed —

" There's two dollars, Mr Jedga, and I oan't get no more now. 1 ain't as big as a man, and I can't do as maoh work ; but if you'll jest let me go to gnol 'stead o' her, I'll stay longer to make up for it." The by-standers wiped tbeir eyee, and a policeman exclaimed — "Your mother shan'c go to gaol, my lad, if I have to pay the fine myself/ "I. will remit throne," said the judge, and the woman, clasping her boy m her arms, sank Upon her knees and Bo\gtnaly vowed the would lead a better life and try to be worthy of saoh a son as that. — " Wesleyan Methodic."