The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-12-01
now We BOYS TRIED II.

.sBil Brayton's father came ~
spring and rented q farm near us.
Father said we'd better not have
much to do with 'em at first, tall
we found out what sort thew
were. but they got 80 ncighborly al Il
once we conldn't help 4 very well.
They came most every day 70 borrow
something. and then II they didn't bring
IL back-and they most always didn't
II used TO have TO 60 for i. 20 ! saw >
good deal Of Ned and Bell.
'.They had a cousin tha' came ont for
. week in harvest time. lie was n bus
incss in New York. and wore Iight-coi-
orcd plaid clothes. He was very socia-
be. too. and would come around about
lunch time in the bayfield,. and would
eat with rs rs free Is anything. which
seemed very good Of him WHOM you
hear him talk OF his ho;cI In the city.
He was very font Of the plums and
harvest apples. too. and praised up
everything we offered him. but did say
that Is for him he had no taste for
farming. The city was the place for
bows 81 spirit. And the Brayton boys
thought %. TOO. and said they had no
taste for farming, and they meant 70
get into the city rs soon - they could.
And when I came 70 think IL over. !
really began 10 see that | had no taste
for farming either. And 1 thoaght Il
strange that father and mother had
never concerned themselves 70 find out
what my tastes werc. for 4 had read IN
. box that il Is . solemn duty tor pa
rents 10 study the tastes Of their chill
drcn. and that their success n life de-
ponds = great deal on such things.
TON Bly-that wa the city chap'i
namc-had . LOT Of splendid little book
he lent the Brayton boys. and they LEM
EN- 70 me and told me not TO tell They
were regular ~rip-roaring st0ri' 9, 4 tei
yout-all nb ut fights, and scouts. and
death struggles. and dark mysteries
and bold adj enturcs. The fellows IA
them were 50 brave that ~ Of 'eu
would think no more OF riding up 10 /
lot of fellows. and stabbing mi and
shooting two or three with his revolver
and knocking down another with y
and putting spurs 70 his horse and gal
Looping of in q perfect hailstorm q bull
lets, than Of eating breakfast
.Bill Brsyton thought he'd try being
one Of these heroes out on the plains
and come back in : few years rich
owning q cattle-ranch and no end Q
70 a mines and things. But Ned Bray
ton and ] thought We 4 60 into business
il the city. like Tom BIZ.
~ spoke 10 father about t. ~
laughed when 1 told him Of my tastes
and said l didn't know when ! WIN wei
of. That u Just the way the fathers Il
the books did keeping your live
crushed down BY uncongcnial surround
ings' they called e.. And Bill an
Ned's father said he hoped they
grow up 70 something better than suc|
. hand-to-mouth life - Tom Bly's.
$50 II was very easy 70 u how Oh
boys IN the books had been driven 3
away from their homes. We talko
: great deal about IL end made up on
minds that Il we wanted q have any
thing % . career, We must nun ow1y.
1T wa m August morning YER
early when ! tiptocd down stairs n -
sstocking-feoI a. paved mother
door | did wish 1 could have wished he
goodbye. and told her how 4 a romeu
Der my promise % her nevor 70 smok
or drink . glass Of boor I'LL I'm twenty
one. (Shc thinks. you ~ that II
fellow lets II alone that long. ~ II hay
sense enough 70 keep On letting
'alone.l almost felt like giving q y
when I knew she'd feel badly a0out 4
but Id left her q noto telling her I ~
1nst going 70 New York % make u