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JIMMY'S CHILD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 5, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 35.

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JIMMY'S CHILD.

LUCY ROOME was taken up for vagrancy in the great city. The austere judge said, “Who claims that child?”
A little boy stepped forward and said, “I do, sir.”
“What is your name?” asked the judge.
The boy said, “I am her brother.”
“Officer, take the girl.”
“O judge, do not take her from me; she is all that I have to love in the world!”
“If you will get some good man to go your security, you can have her; but I cannot give her to you,” said the judge.
The honest little fellow, with tears in his eyes, walked up close to his poor sister, and said: “Sir, I have no one to give. I did take care of her till the man I worked for died, and while I was looking up a place, she begged some bread, and they took her up; but now I have a good place, where I get $3.00 a week, and I will put her to school. I have no security, but I do not lie nor swear nor drink and I work hard. Judge, will you please let me kiss her before you take her from me?”
The judge wept, and said, “Take her, my boy; I will go your security.”
Hand in hand they left the court room, Jimmy Roome to make a successful and useful man, and his sister to be a most excellent lady.—Selected.