The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-20
an EnUCAskD YOUTH.
A small Boys SOIiloquy ON tie
Cause OF Education.

"The cause OF education be hanged,
he muttered as he sat down on the curb
stone on Shelby street yesterday.
"He was lad of thirteen. de spit
through his front teeth and he spit often.
HIS pants were supported by piece oI
wire clothes line gathered around Tie
waist. his Lat was ancient and greasy,
and his fat feet seemed TO be waiting
for thunder shower To wash them
! clean.
That's what ais meW he went on IS
! he push ed his toes into the wet sand. 81
don't believe In fellow diggln' IN and
! learning all there Is to learn, and not let
| ting other folks have
chance. There's lots o. other
| folks in the world besides me,
and | amt going to be hog and learn
all there is to learn"
Alter minute he went Oh:
"Don't | know huff now? Three
times two are six, four times five are
twenty, and four and four are eight.
That's as correct AS | could get 'em II l
went to school hundred years. And
don't know how to spell. Cat is cat
the world over, and I'll bet on it every
time. Hen spells hen, and | know 1t
as well as if | weighed a ton"
He rose up to throw stone at dog
across the street, and after resuming his
seat he went on:
"Jogerfy kinder wras.les me down, but
| don't 90 much ofjoteriy. What do l
care whether All island is surrounded BY
water, or whether there amt water
within. ten miles OF it2 S'pose. IN going
to sell islands ior a living2 l don't care
which is the highest mountain or the
longest river, do |? I'm going to keep
feed store, and when I'm rolling nay
around will l care about mountains ana
rivers2 I've heard the boys go on about
exports and imports, and straits and cas-
and cape, but what's them to me? Ii a
Teller wants Il bag O oats, is he going to
ask ne when the Island Of Madagascar
was discovered?
He carefully examined the big toe OF
his left foot and the heel of his right foot,
aud gloo mily observed:
"rhe old folks are making ready 10
push me into schCo', and I've got TO make
TO keep out. can't take to school some
how. | could sit nere and study all day,
but the minute | get into school-house
Pm nervous. Something is going TO
happen to me this week. I'll be taken
home II hGel-barIrow with q big
cash IN this heel or this toe almost cut
of That will mean four weeks on n
crutcn, and they don't allow lame boys
to 20 to sbool and crutch up and down
the aises. Or, 'sposiug 90 home with
palptstion OF the heart? The old lady
HIS had it, and won't more than get
into the house before she'll have me
tucked upon lounge, the camphor
bottle down, current jelly and sponge
cake in the distance, and she'll call out to
the old gent"
Father, It's no use of thinking OF send
ing this boy to school. He looks stout
and hearty, but he is mere shadder.
The close atmosphere of the room will
kill HIM before snow flies"
The boy rose up. There was a grin
all over his face, and he chuckled:
"PaIpltation is the keynote! A sore
toe can be seen, n paiPltating heart Is
hidden away under hide aud fat, and |
ribs. Now then - GOSH, woosh, |
u-m.m-n-nol1 your breath, roll your
eyes, kick out yer left leg and make her
hob around like fly on 3 hot stove
cove"