BOYS BY A BOY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2501, 15 January 1887, Page 2

BOYS BY A BOY.

_ The teacher in one of our intevme* diate schools one day last week had* lesson in language, giving for the subject the word "Boy,".tho scholars to write out what they could about the subject,. and;this' 'without ..assistance and wilhoat.any tim'3, for-preparation. Following are two specimens of the "compositions," written.by twoßmall boys, 6ni9 and one 10 years of age. A boy is .a biped animal, one to three feet high.. Some boys are wise, intelligent, dull, bad, good, kind, gentle, cross, unkind, stupid, etc..;.' Some boys aw rerykmd to their brothers and sisters. \ly brotheris very kind to me. Some

boys grow up to be groat mean, soma mayors of cities, and some own great mills and stores. Boys who study I when they are small become the Igreatestmen. .Some boys who do not I jnot Btody when, they are young grow \ are poor, and have to goQjt with | j'a pickax and sfcovel, shovelling oakthe • gutters and streets. Holidays .Borne'---jboys sell lemonade and iced cream and jpme such things as I Have mentioned \andeftrn lots of money. Last' fourth if July I had a ; lemonade ream stand and earnpd lots of money, iomo bojslearn how'to swim and soma save lives. Some boys steal tbingsand get arrested, and their parents bayS to bail tbemout. Some boys areoruel to .animals. Some boyscome to.school With shoesjmd stockings off. their W. "ncombect, and are not , teacher does not like.thig; soaLe makes pmjpqk neat ; .,...gb m 6 boys stay pome nnd'looksafter the garden and the baby and some boys run away and k jpt into mischief, Some got hurt. One in the week's vaccination I went 'offwith Sylroater Bennett, to play in jome sand. ■ ■Jt was in' winter, ■ Wo fcame home in his yard, and there was some ice on th.e ground, and he took mpan ase and'began chopping it, >'•' I >ent to piok he struck me in 'the eye with tho back of an axd. This " iwas an accident. He cried and r did. s , .Once I was coming homq'fr,om ( I jumped on a; milk' tern; Mm ,fn jumped I lostmy balance and fell in a mud hole, Boys are not so good^. (kind, gentle, and stupid.as girls;are," Jf, A boy'ls a- biped.' not very, but v th'ey l are' large' onougff to'bo' ■' •in mischief, In'surhmer. most of. the 'boyssteal all the.fruit we'eanj and chew tobacco and smoke it,. and' figUt* and swear, and curse, and tell lies, and are lazy, and saucy, and sulky, and are proud. In school they whisper anS ! play, and do npt.ljke to, study whanihe js looking; ir and 'W6stof. ;h'etri come with dirty faces] md ihey dirty up the yWtf'tmd; buiJdV/ ; ng,- and;% r aw^y ; ;^-.%5 : ■ s!•ss Mwji, racings-flying.' Hfe^ 1 : • •prse t ' switch, = &<s' , : p-go-^eek, ; tag,, <■■" jmpjng (; runnjug,. vflmi^:.'&■>■ ■ m WWt . boys, ,giu^o-. ■ their, : ;■ pother and ''idon'fr ,mvA .. to 7do Iny errands/far-; their I mveseeri'someboysaskthpir mother 'or.a'cent, and if : : they 'will iot giva cry, and f they get"one'they will begin to laugh. fi airigarid;jump.ola rill be.cryingfor sleds.'-'; kUf <fii/'' ne for a match to BDaoke a ibid hirrt that his .match, wit ori" thft Hate JFarm, 'Boys'tealways Int^^