Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-24

| anu UlCTe were nOgS 10 ICeu dUu COMS "
milk, and wood TO cut, and ] can't tell
| what all. 7 worked till all the rest had
eaten break fast and then went TO mine.
hadn't got more than half done when
father came in and said "IIurry up, Bill
are you going TO cat all day. The machine
will start in few minutes, and you hain't
got enough wood cut" lie worried me
so that couldn't cat with any comfort 50
| took a piece in my hand and started.
wasn't quite ready when they began 10
thresh, and father said Come, Bill
what makes you so cverlastin slow
| When ] was of your age, could do twice
rs much in half the time" | pitched
straw till noon, and then unhitchod, fed
and watored our team, and carried swill
and corn to the hogs while the men were
eating and then went to my dinner. just
as | was going to sit down, Mr. Higgins
said Bill, / left my coat out in my
wagon; you run and git it, my pipe
is in the pocket, and you're younger
than ann The mcn sat and rested
while was eating, but just the minute |
was done the hired girl said: "Bill,
wish you would bring In some wood !"
and father said Run quick, Bill, and
then bring out the team" pitched straw
again till dark The hay that we were
feeding was in the NOV overhead, and J
went up and threw down hay enough for
our horses, and just as | was about to
climb down, that tantalizing old Higgins
said Bill throw down hay enough for
all the horses while you are at it,"
thought he was just as well able to throw
down hay for his own horses as l was to
do IL for him, and | never let on that |
heard him, but when | was about half
down father said "Bill, didn't you hear
Mr.. Higgins? go back and get hay enough
| for all the horses, and be quick about 1t;
you don't work as if there was any life in
you; il will be midnight before the cows
are MIXED at this rate" How did wish
| that he'd help me to do the chores, but |
knew that it wasn't any kind o. use to ask
him to do boys work. / got done at last
and went into the house so tired that !
thought I'd have TO go to bed with my
boots on, for | didn't feel as though had
life enough TO pull them off. "Bill >" says
father, don't believe put the bars up
when / came through with the last load
you may go down there and see to it," il
amt but forty rods from the house TO the
| bars, but 1t seemed like good way that
night and | asked father if Icouldn't ride
one of the horses. " Whatp says father
"take horse to 60 down there after they
have been workin' on the machine al
day? Boy, are you crazy? Who ever
heard of such laziness? No, indeed, you
don't take horse"
/ commenced work two hours and hal
before the horses did, they stopped a
noon, and / didn't, and they had beer
standing still for more than two hours a
night while was at work, but he knows
! just what they are worth in dollars ant
cents, but he wouldn't know how to put
value on me. Boys don't wear out, MOI
die of old age, and it amt worth while tt
save them. I'd be tired of life il il WASH
for a day that's comm that's got NOR,
liberty in it than the Fourth OF July,
day that's better than Christmas and New
Years and ThankSgivin' all put together
and that's the day I'm twenty-onc Dc
you s'pose I'll stay on the farm another
day after the sun rises on that glOrOu!
morning? Not an hour longer than | car
help. Nobody has ever mistrusted wha
! study so hard at school for; it's because
I've notion that an education will hell
me to make my way in the world when
leave the farm. I'm studying arithmetic
and learning to be good pcnman, so tha
if | should get a chance in a store, my
ignorance won't stand in my way. Ii
can't do that, l will learn trade, but i
you ever hear of my coming back to tn,
farm you may know that | didn't hav,
sense enough to get Il living any othc
way; but | know of one set of boys tha
will be willing to stay at home fort,
years if their father wants them to
was going by Mr.. Harris ON
cold day just as he and his sol
Thomas came home from market
Tommy" says Mr.. Harris, "yo,
seem to le very cold, go right in til
house and l will put out the horses.
"No, | won't" says Tom, jumping ou
OF the sleigh and helping TO unhitch til
tugs, "you are just as cold as l am, an,
I'll help and then we both can go in to
gether." went home, and my feet wer
aching and my hands so NUMB that
could scarcely use. them, but father dit
not offer to come out and help me put ou
the team. When he is going away l har
ness the horses and drive round to tn
door, and when he comes home he stop
at the gate and calls me to take care of tn
horses, but no matter how cold am, h
never does the same for me. | asket
Tom Harris if he always made the fires
~ always mean to-" said he, "5ut whel
it is Il very cold morning, father has
done before | can wake up; l don't wan
him to, but he says he won't put all tn
cold jobs on to me, an" always when W
have "A disagreeable piece of work to do
father goes along and does the hardes
part of it himself" Tom cuts most q
the wood, but he says if there is
tough, knotty piece he always has Il
work that up first, to keep his fathe
from doing it, but I'm never trouble,
that way.
/ once heard father say to Mr.. Harris
Z" You are spelling your boys by indulg
ing them as you do; they will never be o
the use to you that they might be, an,
then it causes dissatisfaction among othe
boys to see you doing all the hardest an,
most disagreeable work yourself, or a
least helping about it," Mr.. Harri
looked at him in n queer kind of way
and said, Mr.. Blake, am not bringing
up my boys for the purpose of making
them my servants, nor to get the creates
amount of labor that their growing frame
can be compelled TO perform, nor to max
them profitable to me after the manner @
my horses and cattle, nor to procure in
diligence for myself at the expense of thei
comfort and happiness but to max
them honorable, conscientious and usefu
men. teach them not to work with tn
selfish object Of obliging them to do all m
drudgery, but that they may possess tn
advantage of knowing how TO labor whel
their own interests shall require 1t and
any one supposes that in pursuing tn
course that | do, make my boys use
less TO myself, that person labors unde
"a great mistake. When | leave home 70
q day, do not give my boys orders, aC
companied by a threat, to perform S
much labor during my absence, but the
know what is ncedful to be done, an
they are always planning to surprise m
by doing an extra amount of labor Will
l am away, and l never fail to show
proper appreciation of their efforts
please me; so you see that my boys do a
much for me as any reasonable father ca
desire, and without harboring resentfu
feelings toward myself, nor secretly az
cusing me of tyranny and injustice i
using my authority, not for the good {
my child, but for the indulgence of m,
self. If / can help It, their recollection
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