SKETCHES BY M. QUAD, Natural Philosophy

An article by Charles Bertand Lewis (M. Quad) in which he describes his experience in witnessing a young newsboy get his nose clipped by a larger boy. After observing the newsboy fish in a pond, he notes that he caught up with the newsboy later to witness him tackling a small boy. The story M. Quad tells seems to invoke human confidence and persistence (never giving up) but the moral is made unclear as M. Quad does not define who the boys are. Were the boys bullies? It is clear that M. Quad gives us an insight into the lifestyles and psychology of city boys in the late nineteenth century.
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New York Evening World

1891-07-20

New York City