The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-23
ESSAYS ON "BOY."
An Interesting AnimaI Faithfully De-
scribod,


The teacher in one of our intermedi-
ate schools one day last week had les
son in language, giving for the sub
ject the word Boy" the scholars to
write what they could about the subject,
and this without assistance and with
out any time for preparation. Follow
ing are two specimens of the compost
tions," written by two small boys, one 9
and one 10 years of age, and they show
ed good idea of punctuation and the
spelling excellent, but two or three
words'in each being spelled wrong. and
those the shorter and more common
words:
A boys biped animal. one to three
feet high. Some boys are wise, intelli-
gent, dull. bad, good, kind, gentle,
cross, unkind, stupid, etc. Some boys
are very kind to their brothers and Sis
ters. My brother is very kind TO me.
Some boys grow up to be great men,
some mayors of cities and some own
great mills and stores. Boys who study
when they are small become the greatest
men. Some boys who do not study
when they are young grow men. are
poor and have to go out with pick-ax
and shovel, shoveling out the cutters
and streets. Holidays some boys sell
lemonade and icc-cream, and some
such things as | have mentioned, and
earn lots of money. Last Fourth of
July had lemonade and ice-cream
stand, and earned some money. Some
bows learn how to swim, aud some save
lives. Some boys steal things and get
arrested, anu their parents have to bail
| them out. Some boys are cruel To ami
| mails. Some boys come to school with
their shoes and stockings Off and their
| hair uncombed, and are not neat. The
| teacher does not like this, so she makes
them look neat. Some boys stay home
and take care of the garden and the
baby, and some boys run away and get
into mischief. Some get hurt, Once in
tho weeks vacation | went with Sylves-
ter Bennett to play in some sand. II
was in winter. We came in his yard
and there was ice on the ground, aud
he took an AK and began chopping it. ]
went to pick it and he struck me in the
eve with the back of the ax. This was
an accident. He cried and did, Once
was coming home from school,
Jumped on milk-wagon. When
jumped lost my balance and fell Hat in
u mud-holc. Boys are not 50 good.
kind, gentle and stupid as girls are.
A boy is a small biped, not very large.
but they are large enough to be in mis-
chief. in summer most of the boys steal
all the fruit they can, and chew tobacco
and smoke it, and fight and swear, and
curse, and tell lies, and are lazy and
saucy and sulky. ana are proud Ia
school they whisper and play and dc
not like to study when the teacher is not
looking; and most of them come with
dirty hands and faces, aud they dirty
up the yard and building aud run away.
The boys play ball, polo Skinny, racing
fying kites, horse, switch, bull-in-tho
ring, hide-and-go- o-sock. tag, chasing
trapping. jumping, running, swimming
| At home some boys sauce their mother
and don't want to do any errands fol
their mother. | have seen some boys
ask their mother for Il cent, and if they
will not give them one they will begin
to sing and laugh and jump. In winter
they will bc crying for sleds. A bo,
asked me for match to light his pipe
and told him his match was on thu
state farm. Boys are always into mis-
chief.-lrOU,deMc Journdt.