Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-01-05
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a DIALOGUE BETWEEN SAMUEL ND 1osx


Samuel, Come, leave Your top and let's 90
and toss buttons Brother john won ever 80
many the other day, and he said he shoald
have had more, but the boys got to fighting
| and broke ilp.
Joseph, Ny father does not think it right
to play so, and he told me never to do it.
s. Where's the harm Of tossing up with
buttons, | wonder
| j. He says, the boys that play so with bfft-
| tons. soon learn to toss up cents; and then
they learn to cheat and steal to get cents t.
play with, and as soon as they grow bigger
they play cards and gamble, and get into the
penitentiary and that it often happens that
they fight, and sometimes thn one kills the
other, and comes to the gallows.
s. How does he knew all that i,
J. lie says he knows grown up men that
have sambied away all their money. and that
they began IN this way. And he told ne
about apprentice boys, that stole money freal
their masters to play cards with, He says.
| II you see boy tossing buttons. the next
| thing will be cents, and then you'll hear of
his playing cards, and then of his stealing
money to buy lottery tickets.
>, | wish had a lottery ticket ] heard
the other day Of a man that drew a prize of
twenty thousand dollars. suppose that was
wrong too, wasn't it
!. 7 - need not laugh Sam father saws
buying lottery tickets is gambling too. and
that people ought to work and attend to their
business, and do what the Bible tells them.
and they will get enough. He says boys
that trFito get money by pitching cents, and
lotteries, and such things, lose their char.
acters, and grow tricky and lazy, and, il
they do not break right of, always come to.
bad end.
s. Well, l know great many boys tha
do it.
j. Are they steady, honest boysa De
they never eheata Would you trust any of
them with money if you had it?
s. | don't know--I can't say would.
J. DO they never fight nor swear
S. Why can't say but they do.
J, Do they 90 to school and to church
s. | do know some scholars that pitch
buttons and cents too.
j. None of our school do so; our teacher
tells us how WONG it is. He says be did
see one or two scholars the other day at il
among parsel of boys, and he was ashemed
Of them, and tod them they would lose their
characters.
S. How Sol
J. He says that boys character is not
worth much that is seen In such company
And he hopes, now they are told of it, they &.
Will not do so again Now tell NE, SAM
when you pitch cents and lose, do yon not
feel as if yon would do almost any thing to
get more to begin again 49,
s. Well, | do, to be sure.
J. Aud don YOU think that young men
that play cards >Eu other such games, feel
Just so too? And if they are in a store, and
their masters money is where they can get
at it, wouldn't they take some
s. ! don't know but they would perhaps
they might.
J. heard, the other Iay, of very young
man, who was CLERK In store in New Yor
who took so much of his masters money
thrt at last he was found out. and for fear Of
the shame and punishment, he ran off: and
has not been heard Of
No: Sam; I'll not go and play any snch
plays with rou, it is quite wrong, and con
trary to Gods Word, and nothing but sin
and trouble will come of it. So, il you pi
stay among boys that do so, You and m us
part Good bye y