Item - Boy Lost

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 36 no. 16 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Wit and humor
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXVI, no. 16, February 28, 1881 (Issue)
Author:	S., Joseph E.
Date:	February 28, 1881
First Sentence:	He was a small boy, forty summers high, six feet two inches old, hunchback in the left lung, ears the size of a North River barge waiting for empty oil barrels, nose the size of a garbage-box waiting for a bill-poster, bow-legged in the small of his back, chicken-breasted in both legs, liver complaint in both feet, round-shouldered in his right nostril, bald-headed with long curly hair.
Last Sentence:	Reward.- Any one giving any information as to the whereabouts of the lost boy will be given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary.