It is much the same in the country. In every village and township in the land, I suppose, there are one or more groups of predatory boys and hoydenish girls whose mischief is only the result of ill-directed energy. If each of these could receive a little sympathetic attention from kindred but wiser spirits, at least half of the crime and vice of the next generation would almost certainly be done away with.
FOOTNOTES:
[12] Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 283.
[13] Charities and the Commons, Aug. 3, 1907.
Antica lupa,
Che più che tutte l’altre bestie hai preda.
Purgatorio, XX, 10.
[15] 1 Samuel, 15:33.
[16] Vol. i, 540 ff.
[17] The City Wilderness, 116.