Jimmy Bean Ben Thornton "All right then -- here goes! I'm Jimmy Bean, and I'm ten years old goin' on eleven. I come last year ter live at the Orphans' Home; but they've got so many kids there ain't much room for me, an' I wa'n't never wanted, anyhow, I don't believe. So I've quit. I'm goin' ter live somewheres else -- but I hain't found the place, yet. I'd LIKE a home -- jest a common one, ye know, with a mother in it, instead of a Matron. If ye has a home, ye has folks; an' I hain't had folks since -- dad died. So I'm a-huntin' now. I've tried four houses, but -- they didn't want me -- though I said I expected ter work, 'course. There! Is that all you want ter know?" The boy's voice had broken a little over the last two sentences. -- From Pollyanna, 'Chapter XI, Introducing Jimmy'