The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL.
Detroit Free Press. ]

detroit Free Press
/ s'The cause of education be hang
ed!" he muttered as no sat down on
the curbstone on Shelby street yes
terday.
He was lad of thirteen. He spit
through his front teeth, and he spit
often. His pants were supported by
a piece of wire clothes line girted
around his waist, his hat was ancient
and greasy, and his big fiat feet
seemed to be waiting for thunder
shower to wash them clean.
''That's what ails me ~ he went
on as he pushed his toes into the wet
sand. 81 don't believe ia a Teller
diffing in and learning all there is to
learn, aud not letting other folks
have a chance. There's lots Of other
folks iii this world besides me, and I
amt going to be a hog and try to
learn all there is to learn"
After minute he went on:
"Don't I 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
If went to school for hundred
yers. And don't | know how to spell !
Ca is cat the world over, aud I'll
bet on it every time. He spells
'hen,' and l know it as well as if l
weighed q ton"
lie rose up to throw a stone at
dog across the street, and after re-
Stunning his seat he went on:
"Jogerfy kinder wres.les me down,
but don't go much on jogerfy.
What do ! care whether an island is
entirely surrounded by water, or
whether there amt any water within
ten miles Of it, S'pose I'm going
to buy and sell islpnds for living 7
l don't care which is the highest
mountain or the longest river, do Il
Pm going to keepa feed store, aud
when Pm rolling bales O. hay around
will care about mountains and RVS
ers 7 I've heard the boys go on about
exports and imports, aud straits and
seas, and capes, but what's them to
me 7 IT Teller wants a bag O. oats
is he going to wait and ask me when
the Island of Madagascar was dis
covered
I He carefully examined the big toe
Of his left foot aud the heel of his
right foot and gloomily observed.
"The old folks ave making ready
to push me into school, and I've got
to make ready 70 keep out. | can't
take u school, somehow. could
sit here and study all day, but the
minute I git intoa school house Pm
nervous. Something's going to hap
pen to me this week. LII be taken
home in wheel-barrow with big
cash in this heel or this Toe almost
cut off. That will mean four weeks
on crutch, they don't allow lame
boys to go to school aud crutch up
and down the aisle, Or, sposin | go
home with palpitation of the heart
The old lady has had it, and l won't
more than get iuto The house before
she'll have me tucked up on the
lounge, the camphor bottle down,
currant jelly and sponge cake in the
distance, and she'll call out to the old
gent:
"Father, it's no use 20 think of
sending this boy to school. He looks
stout and healthy, bat he's mere
shadder, The close atmosphere of
the school room will kill him before
snow flies"
The boy rose up. There was
grin all over bis face, and he chuck
led: l9b bnesnaai r9 basa
J "Palpitation Is the key note! A
sore toe can be- seen--a palpitating
heart is hidden away under hide and
fat and ribs. Now then--oosh--
Woosh, u>m n M hold yer breath,
roll yer eyes, kick cut yer left leg
and make her bob around like fly
on a hot stoye-eover."i i0g