St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-01-02

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/ else. If il country boy were wise he
would stay at Just that age when he
could enjov himself most. and have the
least expected of him i'll the way of
work.
OF course the perfectly good boy will
always prefer to work and to do
chores" for his father and erramds for
his mother and sisters, rather than EN-
Joy himself in his own way. | never
saw but one such hoy. He lived i'll the
town of Goshen-nOt the place where
the butter is made. but Il much better
Goshen than that. And | never SAW
him. but | heard of him; and being
about the same age, us | supposed, |
Vas taken once from ZOah, where
| lived, to Goshen to see him. But he
WAS dead. He had been dead almost Il
year, so that it WAS impossible to see
him. He died of the most singular
disease it was from not eating green
apples III the season of them. This
boy. whose name was Solomon, before
he died. would rather split up kindling-
wood for his mother than go a-tishing-
the consequence was that he was kept
at splitting kindling-wood and such
work most of the time. and grew Il bet
ter and more useful boy day by day.
solomon would not disohey his parents
and eat green apples not even when
they were ripe enough to knock off
with Il stick-but he had such long
ing for them, that he pinned, and passed
away. If he had eaten the green ap-
Piles he would have died of them, prob
ably So that his example is il difficult
one to follow. In fact, Il boy is Il hard
subject To get Il moral from, anyway.
All his little playmateS who ate green
apples came to SOlomon's funeral. and
We're very sorry for what they had
done.
| John was il very different boy from
solomon. not half 81 good, nor half 50
dead. He was farmers boy us Solo
mon was. but he did not take SO much
interest in the farm. If John could
/ have had his way he would have dis
covered II cave full of diamonds, and
/ lots of nail-kegs full of gold pieces and
Spanish dollars. with Il pretty little girl
! living in the cave. and two beautiful
capali>oned horses. upon which, taking
the jewels and money. they would
have ridden off together, he did not
know where. John had got thus far in
his studies, which were apparently
arithmetic and geography, but were i'll
reality the ARABIAN Nights. and other
books of high and mighty adventure.
| He was Il simple country hoy. and did
not know much about the world as il Is.
but he had one of his own Imagination.
i'll which he lived Il good deal. | dare
say he found out soon enough what the
world is. and he had Il lesson OF two
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dents, which may as well relate.
If you had seen John at this time you
might have thought he was only Il
>habbily dressed country lad. and YOU
never would have guessed what beauti-
tu thoughts he sometimes had as he
Went >tuhhing his toes along the dusty
road. non what Il chivalruu> little fcl-
low he was. lou would have seen Il
short boy. barcfooted. with trow<crS ut
once too big and to" short. held up per
hap> 10y one >lI>ptndcr only. IL checked
cotton shirt, and Il hat of braided palm
leaf, traNcd at the edges and hulycd up
/ i'll the crown. 1t is impossible to keep
Il hat neat if you use it to catch bum
/ hlc-hcc> and whisk EN- to bail the Wa
ter from IL leaky boat to catch min
noW> IN: to put over honey bees nests,
and L. transport pebbles. straw berries,
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