HOW TO BRING UP A BOY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 25 February 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO BRING UP A BOY.

' "If I'Had-a boy to 'bring him up too softly/' begaii'Brother '.Gardner, as Samuel-Shin-finally-.quit poking .the fire. " Ebery day of my life ! meet men .who were brung'iip softly. 'Ai toys doy 'were kissed aa' petted an' staffed withsweot cake aa' cried oner. ■As'yoVng ! mon dey lmd nilffin' to do but spend, moiiy,-. dregai like monkeys, loaf ,on do. atreetsj and loolt down at honest labor. , As.mqndeyiants failure, People who doan' h«ie vem ; and.avoid 'em feel to pity 'em, an' (lat'sjuatas bad, -When T see a mail whom ebefybpdyidißlfes, I realise dat he was brung up on de goodyrgood plan as a boy. If I had a boy. I'd rub him ,again the world.' I'd put responsibility on his shoulders, If begot sugar/he'd aim it. ; 1( he got time for loafin'itwould-, lie only wter his work,,wm'done..,, If [ho.'iwas ugly 's[' obstinate, I'd tan, it,outer, him jnstead of buyiu' him off. ;;.If,ybu want.to.make a man, humor de whjma.of ,a - boy.'y If ypu want to make a qbward, forbid your boy •tij defend his ri^htSyX'd-teach r ail, good boys had rights, an! dat.fMle he had no business to trimplis on de rights of !odder boys,'no Boy Had de privilege of takin' jhjmiby [the ,nose„ [.Las'- night an'lipin' up my.way- wasttufn'ed out of doors by his boy. ( ; ; & has'been trym''de.goody;gqi)a! plan' on ypuih 'fiir de las' 20 y'are, an'' dis amcthe.Jegitimate! result; ' He didn't ,\viint' hiqi' to; Work k'aae r work is; hard... He d to drfiss jliinfiir fear people ,wouU look-down on him.- De boy am to-day loafer,- ■ neither l grateful filr ! 1 Wbfat lia3~ Bin in"de.pa , 3 , nor*'cariti I Wat happens i* 4b j-fu'cher.f.Ten ;y'a| , s. ago hWas cried ober, run; icoaxed ian'' bought' off,' afl' his' ' madder'' libed'-Jo? see;hirhaJLl(iafet t ;ajid;his' |apher has foiiu' him l'ingraft;" " ' ■ "" r:i