A CRIPPLE'S TOES. He Uses Them as Readily as Most People Their Fingers.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3

A CRIPPLE'S TOES. He Uses Them as Readily as Most People Their Fingers.

Onk of fche rare curiosities to be seen on fche streets of Middletown i« a boy named Mylchreest. He is about 12 years of aue. He was born without arms, yet be plays ball and peddles papers on the streets. He carries silvei and pennies in his boob*, and can make change us rabidly as anyone, picking out pennies or nickels wirh his toes. He ne\er makes- nny mistakes, and can tell the size of a coin by feeling it with hi* toes. Youncj M ) lchreest keeps his feet very clean. It is indeed a funny siyht to see him sit at a table with a knife between fcho toes of one foot and a fork held by the toes of the other foot, os he rapidly cuts up his food and places it in his mouth, huring the school vacation this lad can be seen daily diivintc ahorse attached to a heavy waggon loaded with s?and or stone, which belongs to his father, William Mylchreest, a builder. The lad holds his leins between his toes, and handles the whip with ea=e in the same manner. He can throw a stone with considerable foice. and is very bripht and ac!i\e. In school he stands well in his classo*. He is popular with all his playmates and the public in general. — 'Worcester Spy. '