Hs 35
SCHOOL FOR
BOYS
LYMAN
HCrasi
HISTORY OF A PROBATIONER
A PLACED OUT BOY.
X was commitred ro the Lyman
School for larceny while he was in
his fifreenth year. He came of res-
pechable parents
After remaining in the school one
and one half years, he was released
to go home on probakion
He has been ar home but a few
months when his parents nokified
rhe visitor thak their son was getking
back into his old ways, and had be-
come so incorrigible Fha hey
wished him taken back to Hhe School.
Sereo Fr Es
LYMAN
He was accordingly taken back, well clorhed, and was ak once
His stubbornness and ill-temper made him so
placed out on a farm.
undesirable that his employer would only agree to keep him upon condikion
that half the usual sum should be paid for his services
As he was ak this time about seventeen years of age, and considered
a very undesirable boy, such arrangements were agreed to by the visiror
In his eighteenrh year, however. he improved rapidly, became arkached
Ho his new home, and Sid so well thak, on becoming eighkeen years of age, he
voluntarily made arrangemerits with his employer Po remain. wikh hirm
anorher year, and upon the expirarion of thar year he hired for arno ther
Season with the same employer.
During Hhis time he senk a park of his earnings to his morher
each month, kepr himself well clorhed, far above the average, and our of
his earnings there was collecked, saved and paid over on his wenry -first
birthday the sum of $85
He is now engaged in a mechanical pursuik, earning fair wages,
and is a sready, industrious and respecked young man.
