Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

BOHEMIAN MONTANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Z 1878
Sunday that was the rale manin OF Christ

IuihfaJ lilaI was tIle fale MANN OF Christ
s mas day.
The meaning Of Christmas. 1t neye
had any meaning to him beyond Jennie
ball and some pretty gift for his mother.
Could it mean this brotherly love tina
these people showed him, that he felt fol
Jim, that he would feel for every man per
maps il he but knew them nearer and bet
ter? Could it be that which the child lat
come to teach, who had his birth in mean
er shelter than this, among men more TO-
norant and poor?
The long winter day stole on. Jim
cooked and nursed, dashing out at inter
walls to signal approaching trains. and made
ajolly day of it. Walter was very quiet.
You're bit homesick,' said jim. in
the evening, noticing that the tears were in
the boys eyes as he lay looking over the
snowy trees crimsoned in the setting sun.
to the sky which seemed curiously near
above them. I'm two days you can go.
But it's a pity you couldn't have gone to
church wild the mother to-day
''Tm not homesck, Jim. And I've found
something in the old shanty which never
found in church. ."-Re6ecca HARDING Daris.
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The Boy Just Out Of School
Did you ever pause and contemplate that
particular and peculiar phase OF human
nature developed by the anxious school
boy when released from the study and dis
cpline-When 'school is Out,'' and he is
on his way home? Ordinary humanity.
when released from the tolls of the day is
prone to seek rest and relaxation. The
boy scOrns all such effeminate ideas. lie
is composed of but three parts-legs, arms
and yell, and the yell Is the biggest part of
him. His legs and arms have been kept in
irksome, compulsory quiet.de all day, and
must now be exercised. His voice has been
seething and swelling in him for hours,
and now must have vent. As soon as he
is clear Of the school house steps he stops
and deliberately yells a yell that is ear-split-
ting, but which has no more object, mean
ing or direction than the midnight vocifer-
alton of mule; and yet it appears at a
full run, with his arms flying about like the
scintillations of 4 pin wheel. He is no re-
specter of persons, and is utterly indit1er-
ent as to whether he runs down smaller
boy, spins an aged citizen three times
around, or mashes girls hat over he
eyes in his headlong career. ''Mercy on
us! If that boy were only mine. I'd-'.but
just then her own boy flies past, falls over
a dry goods box, bounces up, kicks ut an
other boy around the corner before she
can get the '.You Robert. - with which
she intends to annihilate him, out of her
astonished throat. There is but one thing
that has the slightest effect on the boy
when he is on the way home from school.
He can see the old man farther than Prof.
Hall can see a haystack with telescope.
and the moment that parent dawns upon
his vision he becomes as proper as model
Letter-writer. and the neatly modul;.ted
voice with which lie wheedles the author
Of his being out of five cents on the spot
IS lesson for future ambitious savings I
bank and passenger railway presidents.
The amount of racing, jumping, pulling :
md hauling and bowling that school boy {
:an concentrate into transit of two {
squares is positively astonishing, and the
Dreternatural GOODNESS and the quietude
with which he takes his red face and pant I
ng breath into the kitchen and asks if sup '
Der amt most ready, is a human conun-
lrum that calls tor unqualified admiration {
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