Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
If they wanted wine, he said, they had better put in at San Barnardo, and empty some of the caches in the sand there, where they had buried many bottles. Seven days later Drake put in at San Barnardo for the same commodity, "finding but twelve botijos of wine of all the store we left, which had escaped the curious search of the enemy who had been there, for they were deep in the ground."
The Huguenot privateer, which had been lying off the Cabezas, sailed eastward in his company, having abandoned Captain Tetû and his two shipmates to the mercies of the Spaniards. They stood along the coast together as far as the Isles of San Barnardo, where the French ship parted company.
"Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you." Illustrated Interviews. No. XX. DR. BARNARDO, F.R.C.S. Ed. When it is remembered that the Homes founded and governed by Dr.
The young student told the children stories simple and understandable, and read to them such works as the "Pilgrim's Progress." The nights were cold, and the young students subscribed together in a practical move for a huge fire. One night young Barnardo was just about to go when, approaching the warming embers to brace himself up for the snow outside, he saw a boy lying there.
Even Sir Richard Brandon, with all his supposed financial capacities, seemed struck with the magnitude of this sum. "And where does Dr Barnardo obtain so large an amount?" he asked. "From the voluntary gifts of those who sympathise with and consider the poor," replied Seaward.
'Cardenly, twixt 'em, they asked for a child from one o' those Lunnon societies same as it might ha' been these Barnardo children an' Mary was sent down to 'em, in a candle-box, I've heard. 'Then Mary is chance-born. I never knowed that, said Jabez. 'Yet I must ha' heard it some time or other ... 'No. She ain't. 'Twould ha' been better for some folk if she had been.
Barnardo comprise fifty distinct institutions; that since the foundation of the first Home, twenty-eight years ago, in Stepney, over 22,000 boys and girls have been rescued from positions of almost indescribable danger; that to-day five thousand orphans and destitute children, constituting the largest family in the world, are being cared for, trained, and put on a different footing to that of shoeless and stockingless, it will be at once understood that a definite and particular direction must be chosen in which to allow one's thoughts and investigations to travel.
"What's that he says, father?" asked a slender young lady who had accompanied her father, the great surgeon, to help him select a Barnardo boy to assist the stableman. "Oh, it's an English street expression," smiled the surgeon. "I expect he'll have dozens of queer sayings." "Never mind," said the young lady; "he has a nice face, and his eyes lock terribly straight at one.
"Of course," continued the missionary, "I have spoken chiefly about the agencies with which I happen to have come personally in contact, but it must not be supposed that therefore I ignore or am indifferent to the other grand centres of influence which are elsewhere at work in London; such as, for instance, the various agencies set agoing and superintended by Dr Barnardo, whose Home for Working and Destitute Boys, in Stepney Causeway, is a shelter from which thousands of rescued little ones go forth to labour as honest and useful members of society, instead of dying miserably in the slums of London, or growing up to recruit the ranks of our criminal classes.
As the Manager explained, it is not difficult to place out a lad as soon as his character can be more or less guaranteed. The difficulty comes with a man who is middle-aged or old. He added that this Home does not in any sense compete with those of Dr. Barnardo; in fact, in certain ways they work hand in hand.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking