BOYS WILL BE BOYS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 453, 12 March 1890, Page 8

BOYS WILL BE BOYS.

‘Boys will be boys.’ We resent tlie old saying, Current with nien ; Pet it be heard m excuse for our straying ' Never again I Oors is a hope that is higher an 1 clearer, Ours is a purpose far brighter and dearer, O ars is a name that should silence the jeerer; We will be men ! ‘Boys will be boys’ is an unworthy slander ; Boys will be men 1 The spirit of Philip in young Alexander, Kindled again! As the years of your youth fly swiftly away, As brightens about us the light of life’s day, As the glory of manhood dawns on us,we say ; We will l e men I 'Boys will be boys !’ Yes, if boys may be pure Models for men ; If their thoughts may be modest, their truths fulness sure, Say it again! If boys will be boys such as boys ought to be Boys full of sweet-minded, light-hearted glee— Pet boys be boys, brave, loving and free, Till they are men ! About a year ago, writes a New York correspondent, I mentioned the high jumping of a horse named F.ilemaker—a jump of 6ft 9jin, in the presence of a large assemblage of spectators. This was claimed to bo. the' highest jumping on record the world over : It has just been, beaten in Chicago by two Canadian lioises, Ontario and Roseb'oiry, who cleared a vertical distance of 6ft iO|in, after several trials. A curious fact-connected \yith the performance is that it was done after two or three failures on the part of each horse, but it was done at la.-t, arid the concourse of spectators was quite takeo off its feet, and yelled itself hoarse. The height was carefully ineasi led so that there was no mistake and no urclc about the business. The horses seemed to enter into the spirit of the affair quite as much 'as did their riders and owners. .Ontario cleared the pole first, after an unsuccessful effort, and then Roseberry did likewise, he also being unsuccessful the first time. Ontario's age is not given, Roseberry is a gelding, four years old and 16 hands.high, .and he has very powerful shoulders and quarters, lfis owners do not know his breeding. It is something of a humiliation to Americans to have their best horse-jumping beaten by Canadians, but, in course of time horses will he bred on Yankee soil that will do7it—possibly Bft—-when the occasion comes for them to do it.