Kansas Charleyundergoes circumcision. Doctors believe it will cure his bedwetting. He is put on an Orphan Train and sent to Minnesota. He runs away and is beaten for it, and for bedwetting. He contacts his brother Fred in Kansas. He is dumped at the railway station, penniless and without food. He makes it to Kansas. There, he steals some cloths and starts the long journey eastward to New York where his sister lives.