y they were all gone. Rev. Mr. O. took
several home with him; and nine of the smallest I accompanied to
Chicago, and sent to Mr. Townsend, Iowa City. Nearly all, the others
found homes in Cass County, and I had a dozen applications for more. A
few of the boys are bound to trades, but the most insisted upon being
farmers, and learning to drive horses. They are to receive a good
common-school education, and one hundred dollars when twenty-one. I have
great hopes for the majority of them. 'Mag' is _adopted_ by a wealthy
Christian farmer. 'Smack,' the privateer from Albany, has a good home in
a Quaker settlement. The two brothers, Dick and Jack, were taken by an
excellent man and his son, living on adjacent farms. The German boy from
the 'Lodging-house' lives with a physician in D----.

"Several of the boys came in to see me, and tell their experience in
learning to farm. One of them was sure he knew how to milk, and being
furnished with a pail, was told to take his choice of the cows in the
yard. He sprang for a two-year-old steer, caught him by the horns, and
called for a 'line to make him fast.' None seemed discontented but one,
who ran away from a tinner, because he wanted to be a farmer.

"But I must tell you of the lost boy. No tidings were heard of him up to
Monday noon, when the citizens rallied and scoured the woods for miles
around; but the search was fruitless, and Peter lay down that night
sobbing, and with his arms stretched out, just as he used to throw them
round his brother.

"About ten o'clock a man knocked at the door, and cried out, 'Here is
the lost boy!' Peter heard him, and the two brothers met on the stairs,
and before we could ask where he had been, Peter had George in his place
by his side on the floor. They have gone to live together in Iowa.

"On the whole, the first experiment of sending children West is a very
happy one, and I am sure there are places enough with good families in
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to give every poor boy and girl
in New York a permanent home. The only difficulty is to bring the
children _to_ the homes.
"E. P. Smith."

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A LATER PARTY TO THE WEST.

"'JANUARY, 1868.

"'DEAR SIR--It will, perhaps, be interesting for you to know some facts
connected with the disposal of my party at the