The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-02-22
Observations Of Mon and Things.
BY OUR GEORGE.


don't want to. Lots Of men have written |
about home, and the ones that said the best |
things about it never had any homes, and that |
is the reason they make it out so nice. Some
body told me that there is no word for home in
the French language. wish was French
man. When l get to be Il big man, III stay
away from home same as father does. Hes
always blowing about what q nice place home
is, but | notice that as soon as he eats his
meals he scoots for down street, and don't
come home at night as long as he can see a
light in anybody's store. Home is nice place
if you don't have to stay there.
Perhaps when | get home of my own LII
like it. I'll come home then when please, and
Jaw round and boss everybody, and slap the
children if they get in my way, and scold my
wife for something I've done myself, But it,
darned sight different with boy, and know
it. | wish there wasn't such a thing as home.
A big boy told me that these temperance lee
turers who are talking all the time against rum
don't know how bully it is to get drunk |
never drank any rum but once and then took
a sweat, and burnt the rum in saucer under
my chair, and | don't want 10 drink any more
rum. | wish some of the folks that talk so
much about the comforts of home knew As
much about it as | do.
A boy that lives at home has to get up in the
morning whenever he is called; he don't have
any say about it. he's Just got to get up when
they veil Al him OF else get warmed, and TEL
Ter don't want to gel warmed every morning.
does he: And that isn't the worst Of it either.
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face after he gets up, and he has to do it every
morning. should think after a Teller had
washed his tace ore morning that ought to he
enough Aud then he's got to comb his hair.
guess IT mother knew how it pulled She would
not be 80 particular. The indians never comb
their hair wish was an Indian. I'd rather
he an Indian than Il pirate there's more inn
and YOU don't get seasick. ibe Indians hunt
and fish and lick their wives II must lie bully
to he an Indian, only they Grind them UP Iii i
mill and make Indian meal OF them.
| L went out with Billy Dayton 10 his Erand-
/ fathers last vacation, ana we just had hunkey
| time, E:ily'S grandfather didn hos IL at all.
/ stayed q weeL and didn wash my lace and
| hands OF comb my hair once, and We Didn't it
| down to the table, either. unless We wanted 10,
We'd just I'LL our pockets with douGhnut3 amt
| cheese, and take piece OF pie III onr hands
and iroot We went To bed when we got tired,
aud didn't get up ill We got ready, and then
went into the pantry ANA ATT ali We wanted.
| never had such q goot time in nIg life and it
wasn't a bit like home. Ii tore MY tGoN ~er7
or Wet my feet | didn't srt laWed, hul all
grandpa amt like Billy. some OF them " i'll
boss YOU worse than your own father.
II a Teller has a father and u mother and Il
grandpa and two sisters and big brother he
don't stand any sight Al ALT. They all of them
| thnl. they can boss him round. heard a man
At lecture tell about the days OF oln fore
fathers. I'm glad wasn't :: boy then.
don't want any four fathers; one is enough iol
me. If had gol TO have four fathers, woulc
rather have three of them mothers. don't
see why 4 TELLER can have four mothers. but
never heard of one who did.
Home is the place where you cant gel
crumbs on the floor or mud on the carpet
They make 4 teller pull his boots OH Whcl
they come in sight of the house. | don't SEE
what il the use of putting windows into
house. When the sun shines, mother Away.
DuItS uDN II inc tuEtIlllS anu StuttS illt Olil II
shut the blinds. She says she don't want tC
fade the carpets. In the summer, when the
flies are thick, our rooms are darker than til,
inside Of our old black eat. Mother Won't hay'
Il fly in the house if she can help it. thinl
flies are bully. | like to get into a room where
they are thick and mash them on the wall.
mashed thirty four on our parlor paper on
IN.
it. I'd like to know what's the use of a DO,
acted lust as if I'd wasted so many flies. | no
tice there We're just as many round the mex
day. Who cares for thirty-four flies: | don't
If A boy don't haze any home he don't hay,
to 90 to school. and it amt much fun to go t,
school unless you run away all the time
That's the way ! like to 90 to school. In
willing to get all my lessons, if | don't HAY,
any to set. | get licked most every time &C
TO school, but it don't hur! much. The frs
time the teacher hits me begin to cry and say
-"Oh, please don't" and the next time SHE
don't hit so hard It's funny about a teacher
licking boy. She Hcks him because she
wants to hurt him. but when She finds that SHIT
is hurting him, she don't want to lick him any
| more.
| A boy cant have any kind of fun arount
home without there's row. know the first
how ever had. | wanted to learn how 10 fire
true, and AZ didn't have any target, / Went
down behind the barn ana fired at the window
1 stood away of across the garden, and when
first begun couldn't hardly hit the barn, but
after | practiced awhile, got so | couId shoot
first rate. / broke out seventeen lights OF
glass. Before | got done | could fetch :
square every time. When father found it out
i never saw man 50 mad. | told him how
had improved and how true | could fire ant
| instead of being pleased, he called me every.
| thing he could think of. | didn't care what ht
called me, till he called me into the barn ano
| licked me. He knocked more pains ont Of mt
than did out of the window, and then he tool
| all the money out of my bank and went and had
| that glass all set again, after I'd been all the
morning breaking il out. That il Just like 4
man.
There ISN'T any iun at home, unless the folk
| go TO the Centennial and leave you alone with
| the hired girl. Just ~ soon as they We're Out
OF the house, our girl cooked up a lot of gruh
and sci it where | could get at il, and then she
| scooted. had the house full of tpiIerS all The
| time The folks were gone. | don't believe the
| house was lonesome Il single minute. When
| the folks got home, father asked me if there
had been fire in the neighbornood and told
him no, and he said hy the way things looked
he thought there had. IA like home tip top if
We only had Il Centennial every wear. don t
see what is the use of waiting Il hundred wears.
A boy don't want to wait a hundred wear, I"
| have some fun, does he:
The prospect of general European