A little boy from one of our charitable institutions was being taken to a JSTew Jersey farm by an agent, the owners of the farm having had the boy bound to them for- a term of yearsV swhen the agent noticed that the boy kept placing his hand inside of his jacket on the left side and occasionally would look within with a tender look. At last he said: "What hare you got in there my little friend f" !'Oh, nothing, sir," he replied, "only a bit of my mother's dress, which I've sewed on my coat. It^was the dress she had on when she died, and now it kind of comforts ape when I touch it.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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117Untitled Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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