Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — He Picked Up a Living. [ARTICLE]

He Picked Up a Living.

Sir John Kirk, who recently celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of work in connection with the Ragged School unJon, tells an amusing anecdote of how-he once questioned a London waif whom he had befriended as to his method of eaming } a living. The young fellow’s reply was typical of the London street arab. “Well, guv’nor,” he said, “it’s like this. I picks strawberries in the summer, I picks ’ops in the autumn. In the winter I picks pockets, and, as a rule, I’m pickin’ oakum for the rest of the year.” |