A LONG TRIP FOR A LITTLE GIRL FROM IRELAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3243, 22 November 1881, Page 4

A LONG TRIP FOR A LITTLE GIRL FROM IRELAND.

The New York Sun of a recent date says : A bright little girl, wearing a thick, shaggy ulster, alighted from the 10.24 Boston train the other day and went into the waitingroom of the Grand Central depot. She sat on one of the long benches, her head resting on the arm and her dusty shoes on the perforated wood seat. When policeman 953 walked towards her she cried : ' Hello, peeler; air ye come for me ? Indade I'm tired. I'm looking fur me fadder. Do ye know him, now ? His name is Micky M'Laughlin, and he is a tailor. He must be mighty old, now. It's a matter of eight years since I saw him last.' ' Who sent you here ?' policeman 953 asked. ' Oh, I'm cum from Queenstown to Boston in the steamer Venetian. It's I that's been bundled about since leaving me Aunt Nora's house in Fermoy,' the child said. ' Mebbe you could direct me if you saw me lines. I've a letter here.' She .presented a piece of paper to the policeman. On it was written : ' The bearer is- Bridget M'Laughlin, 9 years old. She wants to go to her father's house in West Rutland, Vt., United States, North America.' It was signed ' Aunt Nora.' Policeman 953 seated the child in a Fourth avenue car and told the. conductor to let her out at Eleventh street for the central office of the department of Charities and Correction. A dispatch, was received from the child's father that afternoon by Superintendent Blake asking that she be sent on at once, and she started on the next morning for West Rutland.