activity, they will be quite unable to tell you the end they have in
view. Then there are those tramp boys who are the despair of every one
who tries to deal with them.

I remember the case of a boy who traveled almost around the world in
the years lying between the ages of eleven and fifteen. He had lived
for six months in Honolulu where he had made up his mind to settle
when the irresistible "Wanderlust" again seized him. He was
scrupulously neat in his habits and something of a dandy in
appearance. He boasted that he had never stolen, although he had been
arrested several times on the charge of vagrancy, a fate which befell
him in Chicago and landed him in the Detention Home connected with the
Juvenile Court. The judge gained a personal hold upon him, and the lad
tried with all the powers of his untrained moral nature to "make good
and please the judge." Monotonous factory work was not to be thought
of in connection with him, but his good friend the judge found a
place for him as a bell-boy in a men's club, where it was hoped that
the uniform and the variety of experience might enable him to take the
first steps toward regular pay and a settled life. Through another
bell-boy, however, he heard of the find of a diamond carelessly left
in one of the wash rooms of the club. The chance to throw out
mysterious hints of its whereabouts, to bargain for its restoration,
to tell of great diamond deals he had heard of in his travels,
inevitably laid him open to suspicion which resulted in his dismissal,
although he had had nothing to do with the matter beyond gloating over
its adventurous aspects. In spite of skilful efforts made to detain
him, he once more started on his travels, throwing out such diverse
hints as that of "a trip into Old Mexico," or "following up Roosevelt
into Africa."