The Honest Little Boy.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1695, 24 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Honest Little Boy.

The story of a Cincinnati newsboy who found a pocket-book containing 3100, and returned it to tho owner with contents intact, reached this city in good season, and was productive of a considerable sensation among the street Arabs. One small boy was so affected by it, that he straightway determined to see that Cincinnati boy, and go him seventeen or eighteen better. He took another small boy into his confidence, and yesterday afternoon the test of probity of character was carried into effect in Park Eow. Boy No. 2 dropped a <yell padded pocket-book which boy No. 1, following c-.ose behind, picked up. Then, with a look on his face that would have done honor to Benjamin Franklin, the honest little fellow walked up to an old gentleman who was passing by, extended the pocket-book, and with trembling voice exclaimed: 'Take it, sir. It is yours. Tou dropped it just now. My mother and seven little brothers are starving, but I cannot keep it, sir, for it don't belong to me.' The old gentleman looked at the boy, then pulled out his spectacles and adjusted them for a better sight. He could not sufficiently admire the wan yisage of tl at little street wanderer, illumined as it was with a glow of goodness and honesty. He patted the boy on the head, and pulling a five-dollar bill from his vest pocket, handed it to him, saying: ' Boy, you, will grow to be a great man. Take this money for your starving family, and always remember that' honesty is the best policy.' I hen the old gentleman skurried into the nearest lager beer saloon and opened his pocket-book. Then he began to dance around and call heaven and earth to witness that if ever he encountered that boy again he would flay him alive. And he continued to orate until a policeman was called in to arrest him as a lunatic, and the only excuse he could offer for his conduct was that a small boy had robbed him of five dollars by giving him a pocket-book stuffed with old paper.

A Chicago Ditty.— The following is a verse that, repeated as many times as desired, constitutes a popular song in the sooial gatherings of Chicago: There is old Sam Simmons And young Sam Simmons Old Sam Simmon'B son ! And young Sam Bimmons Will be Sam Simmons, When old Sam Simmons is done!