Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-05-03

natural history. lie Begins tc real about
and to observe the habits of birds, beasts,
ard fishes. Nothing is more important.
than to teach a child to derive pleasure
from the use of his higher faculties. A
boy that knows all the birds in his neigh
borhood, their haunts and habits, the
style Of their nests, their eggs the color
of their young, their food, dispositions,
and uses in nature, The commen wild ami
mails that exist in the region around his
home, the flora, and simpler clements of
geology, has opened up in himself tastes
and habits which will have power upon
his whole life for good. Such education
by broadening the sources of enjoyment,
and by making him less dependent for
happiness upon any single set of clrcum-
stances, dimlnishes the power Of misfor-
tune and of commercial revusions. Men
who derive their joys from one or two
sources only, are usually very unhappy or
very stupid in old age. The wider the
range on which the mind pastures, the
less likely VIII it be to suffer from fam
inc.
These considerations are equally appli-
cable to the rod. Whether it be gun or
rod, or better yet, both, the man who
never saw anything but the pan and the
spit is not half sportsman. The true
sportsman has keen zcst for early hours,
fresh air, the exhilerations of vigorous
exercise he learns 10 love the face Of
heaven, of the earth ard of the sea- Re-
jectpg the stewing and cuddlipg luxures
Of lazy life, he purchases health and
pleasure in one bargain.
Nor is a true son of the stream and the
forest an unkindly man. On the con-
trary, tGNhc sportsman is tender Of every
living thing. He knows the rights Of
binds and beasts, and respects them,
Would i true man stand near by the
hour firing into the dense crowds tf a pig.
con roost? 1t is bird murder that should
shock true son Of q gun! Killing fol
the sake Of killing is simple barbarity
One may, and should, be lover Of field
sports, and yet be in sympathy with all
animated nature. An instructed and
honoi'aBlc boy will never Kill anything
for the sake of killing. Song birds. spar
rows, and the small fry are sacred. Fol
the table it is lawful to slay that you may
eat. But those gunners who 90 forth tc
shooting whatever they can hit, be 1t bird
frog, or beast, are barbariaps. af.
But this is thing to be learned. I'm
regulated destructiveness belongs to the
young human animal, but the tongue Of
wisdom and the rod of correction shall
drive it far from him.
And so, for hundred reasons, we say,
let boys be taught how 10 use a gun. Al
twelve, at fourteen certainly, a boy is ca
pable of taking care Of himself out oi
doors.
He ought to be able to drive a horse,
to climb the highest tree, to swim skillful'
ly, to carry gun safely and to use it a.
right to be of such manly disposition as
not to provoke attack, or, if wantOnly as
sailed, to have such courageous way oI
using himself as that the same miscreant
will hot choose to meddle with him a sec
ond time. Nimble of hand, quick of foot
strong of loins, patient of fatigue, loving
action for mere luxury,-this is the boy
that pious mother finds it not hard tc
train christiauly, and when to this outward
freedom is added the self-control which q
true religion gives, he will grow up such
a man as tbe State needs--as good men
honnor-and true WOMEN fcryently love-
Beech.r.