Section 125. DR. GUTHRIE ON RAGGED SCHOOLS. III.
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I[1] took up that man’s history, and I found it animated by[2] the spirit of[3] Him who[4] had “compassion on the multitude.” John Pounds was a clever man besides[5]; and, like[6] Paul, if he could not win a poor boy in (auf) any other way, he won him by art. He[7] would be seen chasing a ragged boy along the quays, and compelling him to come to[8] school, not by (durch) the power[9] of a policeman, but by the power of a hot potato. He knew the love an[10] Irishman has for a potato; and[11] John Pounds might be seen holding under a boy’s nose a very hot potato, and[12] wearing a coat as ragged as the boy himself wore. When the day comes when[13] honour shall be done to whom honour is due[14], I[15] can fancy the crowd of those whose fame poets (S. 3, N. 2) have sung[16], and to whose memory monuments have been raised, dividing[17] like a wave, and[18] passing the great, and the noble, and the mighty of the land, this poor, obscure old man stepping forward and receiving the especial notice of Him who said: “Inasmuch[19] as ye did it to one of the least of those, ye did it also to me.”—Dr. Guthrie.